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U.S. Hurricane Centre boss retires after 34 years

 
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08/27/2006 11:18 PM
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U.S. Hurricane Centre boss retires after 34 years
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When he retires as director of the National Hurricane Center in January, Max Mayfield will have spent 34 years guiding Americans through some of the busiest, most destructive Atlantic hurricane seasons on record.

But one thing still bothers him.

"This poll at the beginning of hurricane season and 60 percent of folks in coastal areas from Texas to Maine still don't have a hurricane plan," he said, referring to a survey released in May of 1,100 residents of coastal states. "And we have got to do a better job at that."

Mayfield, 57, who announced Friday he is retiring, said hurricane preparedness is still his passion. Besides monitoring storms, he's been traveling nonstop to coastal states preaching that message during the hurricane offseason.

"I'm tired. I've been here 34 years and I've given it all I've got," said Mayfield, who has led the center since May 2000.

He is well known to residents in hurricane-prone areas in the United States from his countless hours of television interviews. He and his staff were praised for the dead-on forecasts of last year's Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.

As he announced his plans at a staff meeting, Mayfield was also monitoring two active storms in the Atlantic, two more in the Pacific and conducting job interviews.

He said he wasn't sure what he would do after retiring.

"I'm gonna take a few months off and do very little," said Mayfield, who didn't rule out a possible return to the private sector in the future. "And after that I may end up back in the hurricane program somehow."

The Miami resident said he planned to spend time with his wife and three grown children and go fishing with friends.
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08/27/2006 11:22 PM
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Re: U.S. Hurricane Centre boss retires after 34 years
uhoh
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08/27/2006 11:33 PM
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Re: U.S. Hurricane Centre boss retires after 34 years
I think thats a bogus poll maybe they are polling the gettos but I garantee the white folks on the gulf coast are prepared.





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