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Transcript: FEMA TROPICAL STORM WATCH ONLINE FOR 1998 HURRICANE SEASON
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Washington, June 1, 1998 -- As the 1998 hurricane season
begins,
the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) launches its
Tropical
Storm Watch page today on the World Wide Web. This is the
fourth
year for FEMA's online service.
"The Internet has become an important communications medium
for
FEMA," FEMA Director James Lee Witt said. "Our website'
s usage
has grown from 225,000 hits/week when Hurricane Opal hit
Florida
in
late September 1995, to this year's average usage of more
than
one
million hits/week - even when there are no major disasters."
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