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The Storm After The Storm: Disaster's Mental Toll
« on: September 25, 2017, 09:57:54 am »
The Storm After The Storm: Disaster's Mental Toll
By Kathleen Doheny
 

Sept. 21, 2017 -- When the evacuation order came as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida, Maria Mendez followed steps she knew well.

"We got the house ready," says Mendez, a 68-year-old English professor from Cutler Bay, about 30 miles south of downtown Miami. The family put up the hurricane shutters, wrapped paintings and other valuables, and moved the patio furniture inside.

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