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Article: Coastal development invites hurricane damage.
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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As more and more homes are being built along the shoreline, their vulnerability to nature's fury becomes a problem with which legislation must deal.
HURRICANE ANDREW struck south of Miami, Fla., on Aug. 24,1992, and caused $20-30,000,000,000 in property damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in the history of the U.S. Andrew was a strong, but compact, hurricane and could have caused much more destruction had its track been a few miles farther north. The damage and human misery caused by Andrew raised questions about the type of development society should allow in hurricane-prone regions.
In 1900, when Galveston, Tex., was devastated by a ...