Table 5

	Year	East Coast damage	Gulf Coast damage		Year	East Coast damage	Gulf Coast damage
1.	1955	7825	0	22.	1974	0	380
2.	1964	3617	687	23.	1985	1075	3863
3.	1961	0	2396	24.	1965	1389	6719
4.	1969	0	5933	25.	1970	0	1894
5.	1953	9	4	26.	1971	45	202
6.	1989	7247	178	27.	1951	0	0
7.	1952	28	0	28.	1990	0	0
8.	1950	1033	0	29.	1962	0	0
9.	1958	0	0	30	1968	50	0
10.	1960	3939	8	31.	1966	46	94
11.	1975	0	1352	32.	1959	104	68
12.	1954	5133	0	33.	1980	0	472
13.	1988	0	56	34.	1976	209	0
14.	1967	0	1137	35.	1987	1	0
15.	1963	0	109	36.	1982	0	0
16.	1956	0	228	37.	1986	1	2
17.	1979	651	3854	38.	1973	0	0
18.	1981	0	0	39.	1972	0	171
19.	1957	0	1354	40.	1977	0	20
20.	1978	0	0	41.	1983	0	2713
21.	1949	1888	119	42.	1984	89	0
					Mean	817.8	809.8

Table 5. Ordered ranking of 42 yr of early-season (prior to I August) precipitation and concurrent yearly East Coast and Gulf Coast hurricane destruction in millions of 1990 normalized dollars. Year 1 has the highest rainfall, year 42 the lowest.