Hurricane Season Has Some Reconsidering Living In Florida
POSTED: 11:44 pm EDT September 24,
2004
UPDATED: 7:37 pm EDT September 26,
2004
The latest hurricane to slam into Florida has some residents reconsidering whether or not they want to continue living in the state, according to a Local 6 News report. A Local 6 News exclusive survey found 31 percent of people asked said this year's storm season has caused them to think about leaving.
However, 69 percent of those surveyed said no, that they have not thought about moving away from Florida.The storm sliced across the state Sunday with howling wind and rain, turning streets into rivers, peeling off roofs and rocketing debris from earlier storms through the air.The storm made landfall just weeks after Frances ravaged the same stretch of coast, and hurled debris only recently cleared from earlier hurricanes.Together, Hurricanes Ivan, Charley and Frances have already caused billions of dollars of damage and at least 70 deaths in the state."The last three weeks have been horrific," said mobile home park owner Joe Stawara in Vero Beach. "And just when we start to turn the corner, this happens."The hurricanes have prompted the largest relief effort in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's history, eclipsing responses for the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, Calif., and the 2001 terrorist attacks, director Michael Brown said.Jeanne is the state's fourth hurricane of the season -- an ordeal no state has faced since Texas in 1886.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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