It is as bad as the experts feared Hurricane Ian has made landfall in Florida and the

New York Times.

I'm Sabrina Tavernicee and this is the daily.

You can see how high the water is, how fast it's moving.

This is the storm surge.

You feel like you're in a war zone.

You don't feel like you're in your little community, your beautiful little beach town.

Since Hurricane Ian devastated Southwest Florida last month.

This are expecting $70 billion worth of damage from this hurricane.

Residents have filed a record number of insurance claims for the damage caused by the storm.

Officials say more than $207 million in claims have already been paid out by insurance

companies.

One state Senator told us he expects rates to increase 20 to 30%.

Today, my colleague Chris Flaville on whether the insurance companies can survive and if they

can't, whether Florida's housing market, the cornerstone of its economy, could be at

risk too.

It's Tuesday, October 18th.

So Chris, you've been reporting on Hurricane Ian and the aftermath in Florida and what

the costs are to the state.

So how bad is it?

We don't have full numbers yet, but from the initial estimates, it looks like Hurricane

Ian could produce the highest amount of privately insured losses, losses to insurance companies

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