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Major Storm Action Predicted for the 2000 Hurricane Season
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Major Storm Action Predicted for the 2000 Hurricane Season
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Tuesday, May 09, 2000 – With this year’s Hurricane Season just upon us, Professor Bill Gray is predicting eleven name storms, seven of them expected to become hurricanes with three of them being major. The Professor said these storms are expected to cause damage five to ten times worse than ever before in the Gulf and Atlantic Coast States.
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But Acting Director at the National Emergency Management
Office, Dawn French said in light of the professor’s prediction that storm
activity over the next five years will be very active, her department has begun
to institute measures to reduce loss of life and property in case Saint Lucia is
not spared. "We at National Emergency Management Office are going through
our usual pre-hurricane data gathering. We are contacting our fellow agencies to
know the officers in the field. Our local communities have already began having
their preliminary meetings and we’re urging all Saint Lucians to remember what
Hurricane Lenny did to us last year and it was not even in our vicinity but it
still manage to wreak some havoc and we are still have some people suffering in
Soufriere as a result of that, so we need to be prepared," French said.