05/06/2009
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"In the early 1990s--Florida, which is quite accustomed, we are a peninsula sticking down into the middle of what is known as 'Hurricane Highway' but we had not had a lot of direct hits by the big ones..."
"We have some folks that do not like climate change around here."
"You cannot get it right unless you have the numbers, and you cannot get the numbers unless you have the instruments, whether they be on the ground or up on orbit."
"Here comes one the first part of the season, middle of August, named Andrew, headed straight for the southern part of the peninsula."