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...hurricane season to expect. The key to his method was May: if it was a hot dry one, we'd better break out the window shutters; if it was cool and rainy, he'd tell us to relax. And he was usually right, especially in 2004 and 2005, when Florida got pummeled by enough hurricanes to blow Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall off Key Largo forever...
...tropical storms, eight hurricanes and four strong hurricanes; a normal year sees about two-thirds of that activity. They might, of course, be proved right, but given their recent track record they also run the risk of crying wolf, which is part of the reason why the denizens of Florida and the rest of America's hurricane-prone coastline are largely shrugging. A Mason-Dixon poll of Atlantic coastline dwellers released this week reveals, astonishingly, that more than half don't feel vulnerable to hurricanes...
...This is Hurricane Preparedness Week, and although Florida Governor Charlie Crist is touring the peninsula, urging folks to stock up on Spam in case a big one knocks out the electric stove, you'd be hard-pressed to find Miamians shaking in their flip-flops. The bottom line for civilians like me is that while we appreciate the climatologists' efforts, these long-term forecasts have often ended up causing more confusion or complacency than preparedness. And now, to make the outlook even cloudier, we have a new study debunking the idea that global warming is intensifying hurricane activity - a study...
...practice has very real effects. Despite the fact that the Colorado forecasts have been unreliable of late, the insurance industry still uses them as gospel to make their own calculations. That has contributed to the skyrocketing windstorm premiums that have forced many Florida residents to leave the state. For the past two years the South Florida Water Management District, reacting to the diluvial warnings, has drained water from Lake Okeechobee, one of the peninsula's most vital hydrosources, to avoid storm flooding. Because the deluges never came, this has helped exacerbate Florida's recent drought...
...more, considering the aggressive tactics of the Clinton campaign, it's easy to see why Obama may not feel like doing his rival any favors. Clinton top strategist Howard Wolfson denied Wednesday that the campaign has had any part in organizing the protests on behalf of Michigan and Florida. But he noted, pointedly, that "given what happened in Florida in 2000 it's understandable that people feel very strongly...