Word: gulf
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...from 1940 through 1969 when monster storms swept ashore with greater frequency. Anyone who lived through Hurricane Andrew in 1992 might disagree, but the experts say that for the past quarter-century America has got off easy. The last Category 5, or "catastrophic," hurricane was Camille, which struck the Gulf Coast in 1969 with winds over 200 m.p.h. and a storm surge 24 ft. high. Since then, hurricane activity has been mild...
...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 $566 billion in 1988 to $1 trillion in 1995. Consider Pinellas County, Fla. The last hurricane struck there in 1921, when the county...
Another potentially lethal factor: hurricanes can suddenly change in intensity. For Jerry Jarrell, director of the federal Tropical Prediction Center (which includes the National Hurricane Center), the most frightening near miss was not Andrew but Hurricane Opal, which hit the Gulf Coast in October 1995. Opal had been a weak storm, but just before it struck, it underwent what forecasters call "rapid deepening," leaping from Category 2 to nearly Category 5, with winds at 150 m.p.h. It also started moving faster. Such rapid change is the thing emergency managers most fear. Says Tom Millwee, coordinator of the Texas Division...
...film won't be simply a colorized version of the old one. Costumes and sets have been given a '90s touch. The famed Bates Motel, made more Martha Stewart gothic than Herman Munster Victorian, now accepts the Discover card. In one hardware-store scene a Gulf War poster hangs on a wall not far from a sign advertising knife-sharpening services. Grazer asked that the film be "scarier and sexier." While some nudity and language that Hitchcock ditched due to the censorship restrictions of his day were restored, Van Sant has struggled to resist sheer exploitation. "I never thought this...
...first went to work for Bill Clinton in the fall of 1991. I had been a wary recruit. President Bush was riding high in the wake of the Gulf War; spending a year on the road in pursuit of a lost cause seemed like a waste. But I agreed to interview for the press secretary...