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Hurricane Michael: Life at the end of the road on Alligator Point
Tampa Bay Hurricane Guide By Howard Altman / Tampa Bay Times / October 12, 2018 ALLIGATOR POINT — Wearing a bright yellow volunteer firefighter T-shirt and a weary smile, Corinna McEwen trudged past a group of Florida National Guard soldiers. They were sent Friday to help clear Alligator Drive, the road leading to her beachfront…
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What it’s like to be aboard a NOAA Hurricane Hunter as it flies into Hermine
News / Weather By Howard Altman / Tampa Bay Times / September 1, 2016 VIDEO: (missing) As Hermine spins slowly northeast, weather scientists sort through computer data aboard a plane that shudders through savage blasts from the storm. Todd Richards slides a cylinder known as a dropsonde into the tube behind him, and with a…