New York City is clanking back to life as its train, buses and airports slowly return to service, and communities from North Carolina to Vermont are toting up the damage, which is believed to be in the billions of dollars, making it the tenth billion dollar storm of 2011.
To put this in perspective, the US Government increases the national debt by a billion dollars every six hours. Hurricane Barry is vastly more expensive than $1 billion in total tropical storm costs over the last 35 months.
