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...cases, what boosted those early storms to Top-10 status was population growth. In 1995, for example, Pielke says, the population of two Florida counties alone, Dade and Broward, was greater than the 1930 population of the entire coast from Texas through Virginia. Like compulsive gamblers betting the mortgage, Americans have pressed their luck to the limit. There has been so much development on barrier islands and beaches along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, researchers say, that a hurricane of even modest intensity can cause a multibillion-dollar disaster. In Florida the value of insured coastal property rose from...
KENNETH COOPER (D) District 22 (Southeast--coastal Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties; Fort Lauderdale...
BORN: Jan. 8, 1953, Miami EDUCATION: Broward Community College, A.A., 1973; U of Florida, B.S., 1975; Nova U, J.D., 1983 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; banker POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1992 ADDRESS: 400 Southeast 8th Street, Fort Lauderdale...
ROBERT BROWN (R) District 23 (Southeast--parts of St. Lucie, Martin, Broward and Palm Beach counties...
BORN: Aug. 10, 1954, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. EDUCATION: Broward Community College, A.A., 1976; California Institute of the Arts, B.F.A., 1980 FAMILY: Husband, Allan; two children RELIGION: Unaffiliated MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Homemaker POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 801084, Santa Clarita...