Groups Work on Various Schemes to Stop Hurricanes
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Amateur hurricane-busters have come up with any number of crackpot ideas to spare Florida from ferocious storms. Among them: blowing hurricanes away with giant fans or blowing them up with nuclear warheads.
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Hurricane experts this time are stressing that predictions about the storm's possible movements are rough approximations.
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As the annual hurricane season begins, scientists are pressing on a number of fronts to learn how to tell with greater precision when and where they will strike.
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State and federal authorities tracked the path of a fictitious &quot;Hurricane Alicia&quot; on Tuesday as part of two-day drill aimed at avoiding the chaos that followed last year&#039;s deadly Hurricane Katrina.
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For the South Plaquemines Hurricanes, a fragile post-Katrina normalcy was set on edge on Saturday when their season was threatened by another tropical storm.
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Vast efforts are underway to rebuild the region's natural hurricane defenses.
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Two-and-a-half million people have been told to get out of the way of hurricane âFrances.&#39;&#39;. The storm is aiming at a 480-kilometre stretch of Florida&#39;s Atlantic coast.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- With another hurricane season upon us, the chemical industry is prepared to build on the successful actions taken last year to weather devastating hurricanes like Katrina and Rita.
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Sarasota county wanted to use e-mail to let people know the area was unharmed by the summer's hurricanes. People were quick to point out a word for such activity. By Daniel Terdiman.
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By Jerry Berrios, The Miami Herald  Mar. 13--If a hurricane ravages Broward's main courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, fear not.   The county has prepared a contingency plan to relocate judges, employees and jailed prisoners.
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Utilities and insurance companies are expected to try to recover massive expenses from the recent hurricanes, and consumers could be the ones who pay.
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By Esker, Fritz  Hurricane season starts Friday but phone and Internet providers have been fortifying services for months in case of another major storm.
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Millions of people were urged to evacuate their homes as the hurricane gained speed and strength as it bore down on Florida's Atlantic coast.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.
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Some retailers are benefiting from the rash of hurricanes.
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Plans created at the state and U.S. level to protect Louisiana from Katrina-sized hurricanes would fail to guard dozens of communities.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has handled nearly 600,000 applications for help in the wake of three damaging hurricanes, providing more than &#36;320 million in assistance, the agency reported Thursday.