Talk:Hurricane Retirement/@comment-3175978-20171017161130/@comment-33388760-20171017175630

Ophelia wasn't even tropical when it hit Ireland. As far as Paloma goes, it caused $1544 million in damage to the Cayman Islands. However, that's 7.4% of its 2008 GDP. If it hit Florida, that would be equal to about $55 billion. Fabian caused $300 million in damage to Bermuda (2003 dollars), and that would be equal to about $42.5 billion in Florida. I understand your sentiment about Juan and Igor but Juan caused a boatload of environmental damage in Canada, knocking down 100 million trees and emitting x billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Igor cut off about 20,000 Newfoundlanders (out of 520,000 total) from the rest of the province and by extension the rest of the country. In some cases, you have to look at the GDP and how that compares to a country like Florida. In other cases, money isn't enough and you have to look at how it impacted daily lives.

I agree that Gordon and Karl deserved retirement for their respective impacts on Haiti and Mexico. Disagree about Alex and Isaac, though. Alex caused $1.5 billion in damage to Mexico. Without adjusting it, it would be equal to Roxanne (1995). If you adjust Roxanne to Mexico's 2010 GDP, the damage she caused would be equal to about $4.5 billion. So Roxanne was actually 3x as destructive as Alex. And as for Isaac, I don't think $2 billion in damage and 15 deaths is enough for the USA to ask for retirement nowadays.