In Gulf states like Florida insurance companies are pulling out as Deanne Criswell, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is sounding the alarm over funding shortfalls following multiple climate catastrophes exacerbated by human impacts.
In 2020, Hurricane Hanna passed through the central and western Gulf days prior to the research cruise and mixed the water column, disrupting the hypoxic zone which forms in the coastal ocean west of the Mississippi River delta. While the size of the hypoxic zone fluctuates naturally throughout the summer, it usually forms again within days or weeks after the passage of storms. [Dealing with Dead Zones: Hypoxia in the Ocean]Tropical cyclones cycle nutrients, too.
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Many properties all along the Gulf are seeing insurance costs double and some will see 300% increases due to sea level rise and hurricanes.
Gulf of Hypoxia
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