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Haiti, not oil spill, is main storm season worry. Why, you may ask?


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Miami Herald:

Haiti, not oil spill, is main storm season worry
BY JENNIFER KAY
May 26, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A hurricane might help break up the oil spill staining the Gulf of Mexico, but the oil won't change significantly how tropical storms develop or the damage they inflict, the director of the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

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Read said his biggest concern for the upcoming Atlantic storm season is the potential for a new catastrophe in Haiti, where hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have been living under flimsy tents since the Jan. 12 earthquake.
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Halstead said Wednesday the state has worked through those problems coordinating with agencies that do not typically respond to disasters and is prepared for more evacuations from Haiti.

"Haiti is no different to us than Georgia or Alabama. They're our neighbors," he said.

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I'm all for the milk of human kindness but you start with your own family first. I don't see the Nashville Tennessee flood victims anywhere in this discussion. Maybe because Tennessee is not contiguous to Florida?

 

David Halstead currently serves as the Interim Director of Florida Department of Emergency Management. He was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist on January 4, 2010.

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