How does the second sentence develop the idea that powerful weather events can cause expensive damage to countries in the caribbean?

a) it lays out exactly how much money the damage caused by extreme weather events cost a caribbean country.

b) it provides a specific example of an extreme weather event bringing destruction to a caribbean nation.

c) it suggests ways in which the nations of the caribbean might stop strong storms from inflicting serious damage on them.

d) it explains why these kinds of extreme weather events tend to hit nations in the caribbean.

It provides a specific example of an extreme weather event bringing destruction to a Caribbean nation.

Explanation:

Read this paragraph from “Caribbean Climate Change.”

Weather events of this degree also cause expensive damage to infrastructure. In 2013, tropical storms in St. Vincent and the Grenadines resulted in widespread flooding and landslides. Bridges, roads, and houses were destroyed. The government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines also reported that more than 10 percent of the country’s forests had deteriorated. Storm damages cost the country approximately $118 million.

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.