Repairs after a hurricane can cost millions and sometimes billions of dollars. $1.8 billion is the median amount of damage caused by an Atlantic hurricane that hits land in the United States. The median cost is the most accurate measure of the middle of the data because Hurricane Katrina's immense damage, at $145 billion ), inflates the average cost of a hurricane to close to $9 billion. Cost estimates from a hurricane don't include damage the system causes once it moves inland. For example, Hurricane Ike hit land in Texas but Ike's high winds knocked down power lines across North America. The hurricane costs don't include costs from tropical storms. Slower-moving storms hover over an area, dumping more rain than a hurricane with high winds that quickly passes through. A hurricane that had a huge economic impact was in Cuba there was a total of 1 750 and the damaged totalled to $500 million (USD), there was also one in Saint Lucia with only 14 deaths and a total of $588 million (USD).