According to Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, seawater from a hurricane's storm surge can be just as deadly as abnormally strong winds.

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"We're becoming very concerned that as it moves in the gulf, even though it will weaken over the peninsula, it will have a very good chance to restrengthen into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico, " said Max Mayfield, director of the hurricane center.

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We have the teleconference where Dr. Max Mayfield, who runs the National Hurricane Center, told President Bush in a teleconference that there's a possibility that a Category 3 hurricane might topple the levee system in New Orleans, and he said thank you and didn't even answer any other questions.

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