"In natural disaster film, the government is cautious about providing earthquake warnings, whether they come fromstrange animal behavior or human predictions. Why? It can create panic and chos with evacuations that go nowhere, and wreak havoc on a booming real estate market or the tourist trade. In other words, quake warnings that do or don't deliver a hit can and do affect the economy. . .

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The exact same thing can be said of hurricane warnings and evacuations, but it doesn't stop the south from doing the prudent thing.

Cathryn