2013 Hurricane Forecast: 9 Hurricanes, 18 Named Storms
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Naples, UNITED STATES: Palm trees at a hotel bend in the fierce winds, 24 October, 2005, as Hurricane Wilma slams into Naples, Florida. Hurricane Wilma pounded Florida with torrential rain and some of the strongest winds in its arsenal early Monday as it came ashore in the southern US state, threatening death and destruction. An Air Force reconnaissance plane measured Wilma's winds at 193 kilometers (120 miles) an hour, slightly weaker than when it made landfall, but still making a strong category three storm. 'It made landfall at 6:30 (1030 GMT) at Cape Romano,' Eric Blake, an official with the National Hurricane Center, told AFP.Cape Romano is about 32 kilometers (20 miles) west of Everglades City, Florida. Landfall marks the official arrival of a hurricane's when the center of its eye reaches land. Quiet usually reigns in the eye of such a storm, with no significant winds, which resume with a vengeance with the back wall of the eye hits land. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
2013 Hurricane Forecast: 9 Hurricanes, 18 Named Storms
20 Years: Remembering Hurricane Andrew
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A sign in front of a house in the Cutler Ridge are
MIAMI, FL - AUGUST 26: A sign in front of a house in the Cutler Ridge area damaged by Hurricane Andrew reads 'We will survive' 26 August 1992. Hurricane Andrew left more than 50,000 people homeless and caused billions of dollars of damage. (Photo credit should read ANDREW ITKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)
