1.   By noon, confident city officials had declared victory over the storm, praising their storm preparations lavishly.

2.   I had made no storm preparations, so I was panicked when I heard the weather report.

3.   The state is sponsoring a series of regional briefings over the next two months to assist storm preparations in local communities.

4.   She said they were boarding up windows and making storm preparations after getting hit by Hurricane Keith last year.

5.   Since then, numerous changes have been made in building codes and in storm preparation.

6.   Since then numerous changes have been made in building codes and in storm preparation.

7.   Teaching policy makers about storm preparation is key to mitigating damage.

8.   The massive evacuations and storm preparations for Hurricane Floyd are prompting stinging criticism -- but not of the weather forecasters.