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Dire need: Countering hurricanes' deadly fury
Sentinel Staff WriterHurricane experts and others meeting this week near Orlando delivered more dire warnings Wednesday about the urgent, short-term need to harden existing homes and build stronger structures, while planning for the long-term loss of coastal buffer zones that...Tags: Orlando, Hurricanes, Disasters, Meteorological Disasters, Walt Disney World Resort
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Fantasy of lights is here again
Forum Publishing GroupThe holiday season has officially begun. Millions of multi-colored lights now sparkle and glow at the Holiday Fantasy of Lights drive-through display at Tradewinds Park. This annual event was not held in 2005 after the park was damaged by Hurricane...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Diseases, Family, Alzheimer's Disease, Coconut Creek
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South Florida spared severe damage, but storms battered Haiti and Cuba
South Florida Sun-SentinelHow best to describe the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season? In a word: Whew! For the third year in a row, South Florida escaped feeling the wrath of a hurricane yet had a number of close calls. Hurricane Ike threatened to strike as a Category 4 monster...Tags: Emergency Planning, Disasters, Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane Paloma, National Hurricane Center
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Nationwide wants 10% hike in Florida insurance rates
South Florida Sun-SentinelNationwide Insurance Co. of Florida wants to raise residential property insurance prices by a statewide average of 10 percent. The increase is needed primarily to beef up reserves to pay for non-hurricane weather damage, including sinkhole claims,...Tags: Hurricanes, Meteorological Disasters, Disasters, Florida, Natural Disasters
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Tropical Storn Fay led unrelenting barrage of storms
Sentinel Staff WriterFor Central Florida, the worst part of the 2008 hurricane season wasn't even a hurricane. Tropical Storm Fay drenched the region in late August, causing nearly $80 million in damages. Even today -- the last day of the official hurricane season -- some...Tags: Emergency Planning, Disasters, Geneva (Seminole, Florida), Hurricane Dolly, Hurricane Gustav
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Months later, Tropical Storm Fay still lingers
Sentinel Staff WriterIt's been more than three months since Tropical Storm Fay drenched Central Florida, leaving a trail of flooded homes and washed-out roads. The water's gone, but as the hurricane season concludes, disrupted families are still trying to figure out what to...Tags: Hurricanes, Disasters, Hurricane Preparedness, Volusia County, Homes
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Grant, church volunteers help rebuild Tamarac home damaged by Wilma
Special CorrespondentThree years after Hurricane Wilma damaged their home, the McKinney family hopes to soon be singing "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Their hopes have been buoyed by a grant secured by a local group to help fix their home and by a turnout of volunteers from...Tags: Hurricanes, Disasters, Building Material, Family, Natural Disasters
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Relentless Atlantic hurricane season sets records for repeatedly pounding US and Cuba
AP Science WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, seemed to strike the United States and Cuba as if on redial, setting at least five weather records for persistence and repeatedly striking the same areas. "It was pretty...Tags: Hurricanes, Disasters, Florida, Natural Disasters, National Hurricane Center
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Fort Lauderdale looks to FEMA to reimburse for storm cleanup, repairs that insurance doesn't cover
South Florida Sun-SentinelThree years after Hurricane Wilma ripped up Fort Lauderdale's high-priced beach lifeguard stands and ran up an estimated $5.6 million in what they considered insurable damage, commissioners have settled with the insurance company for $1.6 million....Tags: Hurricanes, Fort Lauderdale, Disasters, Meteorological Disasters, Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Daniel Vasquez: Condo associations must purchase windstorm insurance
The standoff over whether to purchase windstorm insurance brewed for several years at Greenbriar Condominiums in Boca Raton. Board member Walker Crewson argued that Florida law required the association to have it. But his fellow directors declined to...Tags: Hurricanes, Fort Lauderdale, Disasters, Laws, Florida
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Panthers' Zednik (elbow) out "weeks, not days"
South Florida Sun-SentinelPanthers winger Richard Zednik suffered ligament damage in his elbow during Monday's game against the Carolina Hurricanes and will be out indefinitely, coach Pete DeBoer confirmed Tuesday. "We're looking at weeks, not days," DeBoer said. "We need lots of...Tags: Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes, Richard Zednik, New Jersey Devils, Football
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Construction under way on Lauderhill City Hall
Forum Publishing GroupLauderhill's new City Hall has started going up on Oakland Park Boulevard. The old City Hall building was heavily damaged during Hurricane Wilma in October 2005, and since that time the city has taken up temporary residence in an office building on...Tags: Oakland Park, Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Conservation, Fires
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Nov 27, 2008
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Nov 26, 2008
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Nov 25, 2008
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