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• The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Wind, Tree, Bending

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• I'm very used to hurricanes. I'm from Puerto Rico and we have 3 or 4 a year. When you have no power, no light, no email, no place to go, you realize who your loved ones are and where you are in your life at that moment.

  Luis D. Ortiz

  Light, Years, Places To Go

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• We're looking at a much worse [Hurricane] risk than people were thinking about a year ago ...some places are going to become uninsurable.

  Judith Curry

  Thinking, Years, People

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• When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

  Jon Foreman

  Hands, Surfing, Lemonade

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• Hurricane Irene ... the storm was huge news. In fact, the Weather Channel reported something they haven't seen in years. Viewers.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Weather, Storm

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• We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.”  But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Earthquakes, Fire

  David Suzuki (2014). “The David Suzuki Reader, 2nd Edition: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker”, p.55, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Anger, Heart, Mud

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• The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Blow, Weather, Two

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk.

  Richard E. Besser

  Medical Problems, Risk, Individual

  Source: content.time.com

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• Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Writing, Bad Ass

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Betcha I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons, got buffoons eating my pussy while I watch cartoons.

  Lil' Kim

  Art, Media, Pussy

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• The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.

  Kerry Emanuel

  Believe, Ocean, Temperature

  "Is It Too Late to Stop the Warming?" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. March 26, 2006.

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• Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.

  Charlie Crist

  Years, Trying, Dozen

  "Florida lawsuits allege price gouging", www.cnn.com. August 18, 2004.

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• Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Mph, Wind, Climate

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• I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

  Rebecca Wells

  Party, Oysters, Shells

  Rebecca Wells (1999). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

  Jay Leno

  People, Three, Gone

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• It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Butterfly, Exercise, Dark

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 06, 2013

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• I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.

  Dean Spade

  War, Teaching, Reading

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.

  Naomi Klein

  Stress, Cities, Numbers

  Naomi Klein (2014). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.436, Penguin UK

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• Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Wind, Sunny Day

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• When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.

  Lucretius

  Prayer, Wind, Sea

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• Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.

  Wayne Muller

  Plant Life, Light, Deep Water

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.75, Bantam

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• The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

  Henry Adams

  Army, Sea, President

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• The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous.

  Calvin Johnson

  Recovery, Volunteer, Support

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