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Sep 4, 2008 11:31 pm US/Eastern
Anxiety Churns In The Atlantic And South Florida
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE (CBS4) ―
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South Floridians anxiously await updates from the National Hurricane Center
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Tropical Storm Hanna churned across the Bahamas and toward the U.S. coast on Thursday, while Hurricane Ike, still hundreds of miles from the islands of the Caribbean, was a powerful hurricane causing anxiety to grow on South Floridians as well as preparations to be made.
"We don't want to alarm anyone, we just want to warn everyone to keep your guard up," advised the Director of Broward County Emergency Operations, Chuck Lanza, to
CBS4 Reporter Marybel Rodriguez.
And apparently it's not uncommon to see many suffering from severe anxiety as a result of hurricanes looming in our area. "A very strong anxiety," said psychologist Dr. Marc Greenfield. "I see people who are adults now, who were children during Andrew, and they react very strongly every hurricane season when there is a blip on the map.Ike's forecast path would bring it about 200 miles east of the southeast Florida coast on Tuesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Whether Ike makes a complete turn and heads out to sea or the turn is delayed, which would bring the track close to Florida, the hurricane center reports a lot of uncertainty.
The best antidote to anxiety experts say is to be prepared.
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