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For now, Florida visitors still taking hurricanes in stride (Picayune Item)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Valerie Stryker's second-grade daughter was nervous. A few weeks earlier, the family watched Hurricane Charley tear across Florida on television from the safe remove of their New Canaan, Conn., home.

Tropical depression: Hurricane linked to long-term mental distress (EurekAlert!)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State University sociologists in Tallahassee, Fla. have found that some South Floridians who survived 1992's Hurricane Andrew suffered mental health problems many years later, a finding that has led the researchers to predict even more dire consequences for those who lived through last year's devastating Hurricane Katrina.