Carolina Hurricanes

To the Editor: Radiation therapy (RO) in times of disasters has recently garnered much interest among those in the specialty, and the Red Journal recently devoted an edition to it.1 We felt compelled to observe that hurricanes, with their associated flooding that poses a particular threat to RO departments, are neither rare nor sudden events. From 1851 to 2017, there were 286 direct hurricane hits on the mainland of Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and North Carolina (NC) alone (∼1.7 hurricanes/year).

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