I think we're going to be able to get that satellite up, because now the Department of Defense has a need for another instrument...

the insurance industry is split on this issue, on what we're talking about here.

Senator Martinez and I have introduced several bills this year because we want a pro-active approach to addressing these natural catastrophe concerns.

One of the problems that we have here in the Senate is the fact that Senators from States that are not coastal States tend to think that hurricanes are not their problem.

Is NOAA working with HUD and other agencies to tie the science and the coastal management and the community preparations together?

Inexperience? What do you mean? Well, we do it with volunteers, and instead of driving two nails they would drive ten nails.

And your chart will be entered into the record.

There is no civilization there, except mangroves. But, that's right, across that moist Everglades, it kept up its speed, and by the time it got to Miami and Fort Lauderdale, it did some real damage.

Evacuation is absolutely critical, particularly to lessen and mitigate any impact on people and any possibility of human deaths.

Hurricanes are amongst the most destructive natural phenomena on earth.

All of your written statements will be entered into the record, so that we have that basis of information.

Wilma actually hit an unurbanized part of the State. The counterclockwise winds hit the coast actually down there in the Ten Thousand Islands.

So, it's fair to say that the reinsurance industry would not support the bills that we've introduced with regard to the Federal Government giving a loan guarantee to the States for their hurricane catastrophe funds.

So, you're not worried about the column of air from the max altitude of the C-130 and the P-3?

the private sector cannot easily compete with the public sector in providing reinsurance.

We've had La Nina, the cold Pacific waters. Your bulletin, dated just a week or so ago, says, that El Nino is arriving.

I'll never forget, in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, in which all of the Habitat for Humanity homes survived, when so many of those other subdivisions were just blown away.

More hurricanes have ripped through my home state of Florida than any other state in the Nation.