Hurricane Season Ready to Spin; Experts Predict 17 Storms, 9 Hurricanes

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WAVELAND, Miss. (AP) - The 2005 hurricane season, the busiest and most destructive on record with 27 named storms, 14 of them hurricanes, has made many people along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts more wary as they prepare for a 2006 season. This year, researchers predict 17 named storms, including nine hurricanes.

That forecast, though less dire, is cold comfort - with levees still under repair, protective sand barriers obliterated and tens of thousands of people still living in vulnerable government travel- trailers on the sites of their ruined homes.

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Hurricane Season Ready to Spin; Experts Predict 17 Storms, 9 Hurricanes

Folks say they have learned the lessons of Hurricane Katrina.

They are stockpiling food and water, installing more backup generators and rounding up buses for evacuations, even in places that haven't seen a hurricane in a century.

But they haven't learn...

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