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Article: Winds of change: how rising hurricane activity could redefine our lives.
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- Sarasota Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Andrew got our attention, but even though it reduced much of Dade County to crinkled metal and splintered wood, the storm fizzled out by the time it passed over Southwest Florida. Besides, that was 14 years ago, and many of today's residents weren't living here then. But in 2004, hurricanes started sweeping through Florida again--Frances, Jeanne, Ivan and Charley, which flattened much of Charlotte County, and last year, Dennis and Wilma, which came ashore just south of Naples.
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at first they seemed like a novelty, something to shake our heads over and even make dark jokes about. "Can you believe it," we'd say, "here we go again!"
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