1.   Emergency planners are trying to prepare for this nightmare scenario.

2.   It opens with an outline map and the superimposition of the rather rigid zones used by the emergency planners.

3.   Emergency planners are keeping a close watch on the forecasts in case they have to roll into action.

4.   A frustrating fact of life for climate scientists and emergency planners is that the most severe hurricanes are so rare that it is almost impossible to discern any pattern.

5.   Emergency planners face bewildering problems in preparing to deal with germ attacks, the foremost being how to tell if sudden outbreaks of illness are natural or purposeful.

6.   Emergency planners are under no illusions that the training will eliminate panic if an attack does come.

7.   Emergency planners have ordered no evacuations on the mainland but warned residents to stay alert.

8.   Emergency planners would quiet the initial panic.

9.   In Georgia and North Carolina, emergency planners were also on alert.

10.   In Georgia and North Carolina emergency planners were also placed on alert.