Despite Forecast, Storm Season a Breeze

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MIAMI -- Despite alarming predictions, the United States came through a second-straight hurricane season virtually unscathed, raising fears among emergency planners that they will be fighting public apathy and overconfidence when they warn people to prepare for next year.

Friday marks the official close of the Atlantic season, so unless a storm forms in the next few days, only one hurricane -- and a minor one at that -- will have hit the nation during the June-to- November period. Mexico and Central America, however, were struck by a record two top-scale Category 5 storms.

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Despite Forecast, Storm Season a Breeze

The preliminary total for the season: 14 named storms, six of them hurricanes, two of them major.

That was less activity than the government pre...

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