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Hurricane Season 2006 Issue
Editorial: Hurricane Season—Again 
by Mary James
The hurricanes of 2005 left more than one million homes damaged, according to FEMA estimates. Some argue that the unusual strength and frequency of last year’s storms are the expected results of global climate change, and that we should be prepared to face similar challenges regularly from now on. Others say that the 2005 hurricane season proved nothing more than that storms naturally vary in intensity from year to year. Whichever you believe, rebuilding or retrofitting to withstand hurricanes—and the potential related flood damage—makes sense. I live in earthquake country; few here would argue that building to mitigate...
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