The costs of Hurricanes Harvey are Irma are still being tallied, but experts are starting to get a sense of the costs in Georgia.
Tropical Storm Irma is a not-so-distant memory. For Georgia, in addition to damage to infrastructure like, cost of replacing power poles and lines, and some property damage, some farmers are also contending with losses. Jeffrey Dorman is a Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the University of Georgia's College of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences. He says some items can’t be replaced.
“Then we have damage from crop losses,” according to Dorfman. “There was a lot of damage to the pecan crop, and probably a decent amount to cotton, so we’re going to have some crop losses and you can’t really make that up. We can’t replant, it’s too late for most of this stuff so if you lost the year’s pecans, they’re just gone.”
Dorfman adds many people also lost two days of productivity. There are estimates that Harvey and Irma could combine for $200 billion in damage.
