Storms and other severe weather events can cause both public health and economic problems for communities and municipalities. Many severe events can result in fatalities, injuries, and property damage, and preventing such outcomes to the extent possible is a key concern. This report does a first prelimanar analysis of the consequences of these events. The conclusion drawn is that extreme warm and heat events have the greatest impacts on health and economy followed by tornados, hurricanes and tsunamis.

This exercise makes use of data from a personal activity monitoring device. This device collects data at 5 minute intervals through out the day. The data consists of two months of data from an anonymous individual collected during the months of October and November, 2012 and include the number of steps taken in 5 minute intervals each day.