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Washington -- Despite a year of record devastation, hurricane hunting is paying off.
Last year was the most damaging hurricane season in United States history, though far from the most deadly. put man may be close to easing the hurricane’s menace.
Property damage soared to $1,421 billion in 1969. All of it was the work of the only storm to hit the United States, Camille, which lashed the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama with 200-mUe-an-hour winds, then ripped north to flood Virginia hill country.
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