Friends of mine had their "late model" trailer's roof tore off during Wilma. They're moving to Las Vegas. Matter of fact the wife is leaving today and after insurance check comes in the husband is gone. I guess I don't hear about any weather events there. But I agree, if we have to deal with mother nature's fury, I'd rather know about it well in advance (as with hurricanes) than to be woken up by sirens blowing (maybe) 10 minutes before a tornado rips your house off its foundation or to be burried under 3 feet of snow that doesn't melt for months. I grew up in WI up till about 6 1/2 years ago. One year we had a severe snowstorm and that summer a small town near mine was nearly blown off the map by an F5 tornado.

Anyway, to get back to the subject matter, we all thought last year was bad with Florida getting affected by 4 major storms, and we were proven that this year was worse. Is this precedent for what is to come next year? In November 2006 will we be saying, boy last year was nothing compared to this year? I guess that remains to be seen. God help us. We're running out of places to go on vacation.

Lets all of us keep our fingers crossed.