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What highly unusual metric does the federal government monitor to measure the true economic devastation of a hurricane?

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What highly unusual metric does the federal government monitor to measure the true economic devastation of a hurricane?

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What highly unusual metric does the federal government monitor to measure the true economic devastation of a hurricane?
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