May be down to many aspects and insurance certainly would be a factor in gauging risk/costs for the number crunchers when creating budgets. Given hurricanes t

May be down to many aspects and insurance certainly would be a factor in gauging risk/costs for the number crunchers when creating budgets. Given hurricanes tend to fall into the act of God clauses and Terrorism tends to fall into its own special category of exceptions/coverage extra's. That along with overall impact upon society and fiscal impact. Does get down to hurricanes you can't prevent, only clean-up and terrorism you have a better chance of preventing - also when people die from the later - they are more inclined to place anger at the government/administration over hurricane victims. Terrorism - case of dammed if nothing happened and you spend money, and dammed if something does happen irrespective of how much money spent. Certainly - would people feel better if the government spent less on terrorism and just put it down to something people have to just accept could happen and part and parcel of living in a city! That won't traction well with many people I'd say. Yet the people have that mentality towards hurricanes - they accept they will happen, unlike terrorist acts and that kinda see's why budgets are the other way.