Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, compared

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As Hurricane Irma continues to make its way through Florida, the story of its destruction has started to be told through numerous statistics.

The storm has claimed 32 lives since slamming the Caribbean in early September, ABC News reported. More than 5.7 million Florida customers are without power and roughly 6.5 million Floridians were under a mandatory or voluntary evacuation, so far.

Irma produced winds up to 185 mph and was estimated to be the size of Texas (which is 790 miles long). Harvey produced winds up to 132 mph and was 200 miles in diameter when it hit landfall as a Category 4 storm. At Harvey's worst, roughly 336,000 people across Texas lost power, CBS News reported.

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Over the span of two days, Irma was expected to release 10 trillion gallons of rain on Florida, Global News reported. Houston had 20 trillion gallons fall on it alone during Harvey, ABC 13 reported.

Both storms are expected to cost the American economy $290 billion in terms of recovery effort, increased unemployment, property damage, and affect on businesses, said AccuWeather president Joel Myers in a statement.

"We believe the damage estimate from Irma to be about $100 billion, among the costliest hurricanes of all time. This amounts to 0.5 of a percentage point of the GDP of $19 trillion," Myers said. "We estimated that Hurricane Harvey is to be the costliest weather disaster in U.S. history at $190 billion or one full percentage point of the GDP."

Swipe through the slideshow above see photos of the path of destruction left by Hurricane Irma in Florida and the Caribbean.