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State insurance fund going strong for 2013 hurricane season
TALLAHASSEE – Florida is heading into the 2013 hurricane season in good financial shape. A draft report released Wednesday showed that a state-created fund that would help insurers pay off claims in the event of a massive hurricane like Andrew or...Tags: Natural Disasters, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Insurance, Hurricane Andrew (1992)
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Gilway: Post-session Citizens is best ever
Hurricane season doesn't officially start until next month, but Citizens Property Insurance Corp. already has weathered a series of political and public-relations storms. Still shy of his first anniversary at the helm of Citizens Property Insurance...Tags: Executive Branch, Consumers, Government, Natural Disasters, Business
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AccuWeather: Three U.S. hurricane strikes this year
Sun SentinelAccuWeather.com predicts a busy storm season with 16 named storms, including eight hurricanes, with four of those being major. The online weather site also projects that three hurricanes will strike the U.S. coastline, with the East and Gulf coasts...Tags: Weather Reports, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Weather
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Palm Beach County hurricane season preparations target social media, smart phone
The hurricane season to-do list now includes adding friends, followers and apps, along with stockpiling bottled water, canned goods and batteries. With the June start to storm season fast approaching, Palm Beach County is counting on social media...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Social Media, Telecommunication Service, Tropical Storms, Twitter, Inc.
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AccuWeather predicts another active hurricane season for U.S. shores
AccuWeather.com is predicting another active Atlantic hurricane season, particularly for the U.S. coastline. While the Pennsylvania-based meteorology company is calling for fewer storms in all, with 16 tropical storms versus 19 in 2012, AccuWeather's...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), National Weather Service, Weather Reports, Tropical Storms, Natural Disasters
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Tuesday: Cooler and drier
Sun SentinelAfter several days with hot stormy afternoons, expect cooler and drier conditions today. It also should be mostly sunny and breezy. South Florida's Tuesday forecast calls for afternoon highs in the low 80s and evening readings in the upper 60s. Winds...Tags: Weather Reports, Tropical Storms, Natural Disasters, Miami-Dade County, Weather
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Richard Grosso: PSC doublespeak threatens local land use planning
Will Florida's precious coastal treasures — undeveloped coastal areas — be lost by an anti-solar stroke of the Florida Public Service Commission's pen? It doesn't look good. Anyone who believes in more, not fewer, energy choices or local...Tags: Nova Southeastern University, Environmental Issues, Monroe County (Florida), Crime, Law and Justice, Natural Disasters
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It's report card time for electric companies, for their performance during Hurricane Sandy
Watchdog with Paul MuschickThe state Public Utility Commission issued a report today to state lawmakers about how electric companies performed during Hurricane Sandy. Overall, the commission gave utilities high marks, but suggested areas for improvement. Utilities turned to... -
COLUMN-Jones Act is set to stay: Kemp
Reuters(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own) By John Kemp LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Merchant Marine Act 1920, better known to most people as the Jones Act, may be a protectionist anachronism, but there is no prospect...Tags: Shipping Service, Emergency Incidents, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters, FedEx Corporation
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Still adrift after the storm
First Hurricane Katrina took John Hoffmann Jr.'s home, which flooded, then exploded, and then burned. Next the storm took Hoffmann's job of 23 years washing dishes at Antoine's Restaurant, a position that vanished when the heavily damaged New Orleans...Tags: Labor Day, Oceans, Relief and Aid Organizations, Religion and Belief, Justice System
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Insurance stalls revival
There were 11,256 bottles of wine in the cellar of Antoine's Restaurant on the morning of Aug. 29 when Hurricane Katrina struck, some of them rare, most of them expensive and all of them ruined when the power failed, the air conditioning died and the...Tags: Small Businesses, Natural Disasters, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Bodies of Water, Renovation
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Science, Natural Disasters, C. Ray Nagin, Ku Klux Klan
May 15, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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