February 19, 2021
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The freezing wind and ice storms in Texas and other states this week could be one of the most expensive natural catastrophes for insurers on record, costing around $18 billion in damage to homes and businesses according to a recent estimate.
Leading risk-modeling firm Karen Clark & Co. used catastrophe-modeling software widely used by insurance companies to estimate that property insurers could face roughly $18 billion in costs from property damage, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The firm’s chief executive Karen Clark told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that much of the damage from the winter freeze stems from frozen pipes and other water-related claims. Numerous instances of pipes bursting inside homes and other buildings have been reported throughout Texas, according to The New York Times.
Around 80,000 electric utility customers in Texas remained in the dark and without heat Saturday morning as the state awoke to temperatures in the 20s.
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Nadiah Adu-Gyamfi has always been interested in the spaces between cultures and sounds. Growing up, the London-based artist would walk through New Cross on her way to school, passing Goldsmiths, where Blur’s “Parklife” would be blasting out the student’s union, before crossing the road to hear muffled dub bass vibrations coming from the local Cumin Up. “I guess I’ve always grown up sandwiched between British culture and African and Caribbean Black culture,” she explains.
One half of electronic duo NULA, which she formed in 2017 along with friend and fellow Goldsmiths graduate Luke Osbourne, Adu-Gyamfi channels the classic sounds of her gospel and soul forebears, as well as the warm, velvety tones of R&B and the electronic alchemy of 90s groups like Portishead and Massive Attack. The music oozes with quiet lust and introspection. On “Moon Chasing”, Adu-Gyamfi’s voice is like velvet as she sings, “
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