[CASILIST] Hurricane Hunters & The Cost Of Preparation

Jesse Ferrell (j{at}weatherwatchers.org)
14 Jun 1999 18:25:08 -0000

This article covers the NOAA planes readying for hurricane research this
season. One particularly interesting fact they mentioned was the cost
of preparing the coast:

"The cost of preparing for the onset of a hurricane is about $1 million
per
one mile of coastline."

http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9906/11/hurriplane.enn/

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Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org
Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org
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