World renowned hurricane expert William Gray, who's been studying and predicting the storms for a half-century, also doubts whether the proposal would work.

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But "we believe that the Atlantic basin is still in an active hurricane cycle, " William Gray, who co-heads the CSU team, said in December.

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In expectation of this, she kept an eye out for them: William in one of his gray suits, with his polished bald head, sitting in his Audi.

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