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27. My most intense experience in a hurricane was in 1966, the year we lived on Key Biscayne across the causeway from

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Miami. We were fortunate that the island was not flooded, but I was awed by the power of the winds and how dangerous it was to walk outside because of flying objects that could kill you if they hit you.

A few years earlier a hurricane had smashed a large ship against the causeway, breaking the only means of transportation between the islands and the mainland. The entire island was flooded, and rattlesnakes invaded people's houses to find someplace dry. People evacuated for weeks, but they did have houses to come back to when the flooding subsided.

I also experienced a number of typhoons in Tokyo when I lived in Japan. Trains stopped running, businesses and schools were closed, but there was no extensive flooding and it wasn't too bad. Elsewhere in Japan, a very mountainous country, villages were wiped out by landslides.

It is frightening how storms all over the world have increased in intensity. There are many places that will become inhabitable as the intensity increases and storms occur more frequently.

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