One of the interesting things about Twitter is how you can observe the varied ways events can be interpreted. These two tweets show both glass-half-full and glass-half-empty views of insurers' ability to adequately prepare for this type of event — and they were only 10 minutes apart:
Many insurance firms price & operate with what they call "weather-related loss event" in mind. I doubt they had anything like Sandy in mind.
— BenMVPk7 (@BenMVPk7) October 29, 2012
From an insurance point-of-view, the insurers and (re)insurers have a hell of a lot of capital to deal with #Sandy. And rates move up after
— Alex Ferguson (@viewfromamerica) October 29, 2012
