ELI5- How did people survive hurricanes before you could predict them?

Question

ELI5- How did people survive hurricanes before you could predict them?

In: 8

Answer 1

If you look back through the records and adjust for inflation, increased population, storm strength, etc. we suffer a lot less from hurricanes now than in times past. Quite a lot less.

[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-hurricane-fatalities-by-decade-US-fatalities-in-landfalling-hurricanes-from-1900-to_fig1_227282076](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-hurricane-fatalities-by-decade-US-fatalities-in-landfalling-hurricanes-from-1900-to_fig1_227282076)

We were really getting on top of it until climate change kicked in.