Storm victims count cost and brace for more
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COCOA, Florida: Weather-weary Floridians emerged from storm shelters yesterday to assess the damage inflicted by Hurricane Frances, which was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved off the state&#39;s west coast.
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Officials in this small, job-starved community hope disaster pays. They're welcoming plans by a startup company to build a $79 million center that would help people across the nation prepare for catastrophic events such as terrorist attacks and killer storms.
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Insurance payments to victims of  Hurricane Charley are expected to reach $7.4 billion, making it  the second most costly hurricane to hit the United States, an  insurance industry group said on Wednesday.
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Along the coast from Texas to Maine, insurance costs are doubling or tripling as part of continuing fallout from Hurricane Katrina.
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ASHEVILLE, NC -- Repairs to damage from Hurricane Frances haven&#39;t been completed yet, but emergency workers in western North Carolina are having to gear up for the threat posed from Hurricane Ivan.
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Every time Paul Mehok of National Nail Co. sees a hurricane coming toward the Southeast, he feels &quot;this little guilt twinge.&quot;.
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Florida residents with roof damage caused by the four hurricanes that struck the state this year may have a very long wait before someone can start work on their property, a county official said.
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NEW YORK - Insurance payments to victims of Hurricane Frances are expected to reach $4.4 billion, making it the fourth most costly storm in US history, an insurance industry group said Thursday.
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The four hurricanes that hit Florida this season combined to beat the record set by Hurricane Andrew for insured losses in what may be the nation&#39;s costliest hurricane season ever, officials said Tuesday.
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Floridians began mopping up on Tuesday  and counting the cost of Hurricane Frances' long and torturous  path through the state and thousands of people joined long  lines for ice, water and fuel.
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Hurricane Ivan looks set to cost tour operators as they race to get customers out of harm's way, though future bookings may not suffer too much.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - Federal disaster assistance money started flowing to Hurricane Charley&#39;s victims and postal workers handed out mail Tuesday outside their damaged building, but hundreds of thousands still had no phones, no running ...
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--ESCATAWPA -- The first money of the $30 million Mississippi Hurricane Funds has built an Escatawpa family a new home and bought them some peace of mind.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said on Tuesday they expected to find more dead.    Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue...
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Another day of severe storms knocked out electricity for tens of thousands of additional residents, but brought along a cold front that was welcome relief for those waiting for power to be restored.
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Hurricane Ivan, which slammed into the US Gulf coast today, may cost insurers $4 billion to $10 billion, rivaling hurricanes Charley and Frances, Risk Management Solutions Inc.
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With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season just a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expection for 17 major storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.