“If there was flooding, no big deal because nothing is ruined. Today if we have these hurricanes and flooding as bad as they say is coming, that is a HUGE difference then the medieval time”
You have realized the key item - the amount of damage depends upon what and who is in the area being damaged. in the past with no people or structures, or only a few random villages, big damage for the villagers, but no damage on the scale of a hurricane hitting a modern city or coast with our huge populations.
Whoops, double post,
But I have another ‘corollary’ to then vs now. We have much better ways to track storms and with more population more people are around to be affected by storms and to record their happening. I think that much of the HYPE of ‘blah, blah, blah’ causing more hurricanes, tornadoes, etc is based upon our advanced ways to find and track storms and more people/towns in the way of storms. I don’t think there are probably ‘more storms’ than in the past, we just now know every time a storm happens.
For example, if no one is in the middle of the ocean in the 1400s when a hurricane was formed, lived, and died, without ever hitting land, did that storm actually happen? In reality, yes it did, but based upon no one knowing about it, it didn’t.