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Most of the names Clark chose are still being used, because hurricane names are repeated in a six-year cycle. A name is retired only when the namesake storm causes extensive damage and the country affected makes such a request. In 2001, for example, Michelle replaced Marilyn, which demolished the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1995. Opal became Olga after its blow to the Florida Panhandle that same year. This year Andrew, which devastated Florida in 1992, was replaced by Alex. "We've probably heard the last of Jeanne," Clark notes. Van Wyck won't be sorry...
...aftermath, far too much of the Jeanne coverage has been sensationalist—for several days one of the main stories was about a zoo missing one of its alligators—and far too little of it serious and focused on the true human cost of a storm as powerful as Jeanne...
...waves have washed away the school playground and destroyed $100,000 worth of boats, hunting gear and fish-drying racks. The remnants of multimillion-dollar seawalls, broken up by the tides, litter the beach. "It's scary," says village official Luci Eningowuk. "Every year we agonize that the next storm will wipe...
...latest plague to beset Haiti, where tropical storm Jeanne left at least 1,500 dead and some 300,000 homeless, is hunger. Flood victims received free bags of water in Gonaïves, while elsewhere in this northern port city U.N. troops fired smoke grenades to protect food convoys that had come under attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. promised more than $2 million in disaster aid after being criticized for its initial pledge...
...Number of alligators that escaped from the zoo in Gulf Shores, Ala., owing to the storm...