{"id":14563,"date":"2013-06-06T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2013-06-06T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:37:19","slug":"500-million-5-billion-whats-behind-the-wide-ranging-tornado-cost-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/06\/06\/500-million-5-billion-whats-behind-the-wide-ranging-tornado-cost-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Hard to Put a Dollar Amount on the Moore Tornado Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14576\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A man on top of a house surveying tornado damage in Moore, Okla..\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/MooreTornado35.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14576\" title=\"MooreTornado35\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/MooreTornado35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/MooreTornado35.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/MooreTornado35-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/MooreTornado35-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/MooreTornado35-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man on top of a house surveying tornado damage in Moore, Okla..<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Following a major disaster like the Moore tornado on May 20th, news reporters want answers, and they don&#8217;t want to wait.<\/p><p>How many people were killed? How many injured? Those questions can usually be addressed fairly accurately. But when it comes to figuring the cost of the storm, Oklahoma&#8217;s Insurance Department has provided estimates ranging from <a title=\"GoverningLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/gov-oklahoma-official-moore-tornado-damage-could-reach-5-billion.html\" target=\"_blank\">$500 million to $5 billion.<\/a><\/p><p>StateImpact has been looking into how exactly these numbers are calculated, and why they&#8217;re so inexact.<\/p><p><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]--><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14563-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/STORY-6-6-StormCosts.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/STORY-6-6-StormCosts.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/STORY-6-6-StormCosts.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a major disaster like the Moore tornado on May 20th, news reporters want answers, and they don&#8217;t want to wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":14576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492],"tags":[539,98],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}