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Last year’s hurricane season drove home some big lessons, the nation’s chief hurricane forecaster said: Storm surge and flooding are dangerous and difficult to predict, and sometimes it’s even harder to communicate that sense of urgency to the public. It …

When the National Hurricane Center’s new director was growing up on the Florida and Texas coasts, tropical storms frightened him. Decades later, Rick Knabb understands storms better, but he still doesn’t like them. “I’m still very scared of hurricanes,” says …