We often think of snow and ice when we think of winter weather. But as Mother Nature has shown us with the latest La Niña cycle, winter can also bring devastating tornadoes, flooding, mudslides and fires. No area of the country seems to have escaped this winter's impacts.
Weather events are costly not only to the state and federal government, but to individual businesses. The winter storm last February in Texas brought the state to a standstill, and the cost of damages was as much as a major hurricane.