# How to protect your home—and your wallet—against natural disasters

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/how-to-protect-your-home-and-your-wallet-against-natural-disasters/
- Published: 2023-04-08T09:15:23-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo credit: Benjamin Barrentine via Shutterstock. Article by Jenny Schuetz. Brookings – April 6, 2023. This article originally appeared on Fortune. com. The tornados that recently tore through Sharkey County, Mississippi, left a trail of horrific damage: uprooting trees, ripping roofs off homes, reducing some buildings to matchsticks. More than 20 people were killed—an unusually high toll for a single event. Natural disasters cause substantial property and economic damage to the […] Click here to view original web page at www.brookings.edu