Thank YOU for everything, LI Phil. You got a doozy of a year to start being moderator here, and you did a great job! This site is such a wonderful source of information and intelligent analysis -I turned a couple friends onto it last September and they're now converts, although we all just lurked quietly to follow along with what's going on. When the media was all worked up and everybody was going crazy during the storm prep frenzy last fall I found this site very calming.
AOL yesterday had a blurb about the end of SFH '04; the stats were $42 billion in damage and 170 or so killed, I guess the figure was for the US only. Glad to see this season end, too, although it's impossible not to think about it since whenever I leave my home county I drive into the swath of one or another of the storms and see how much people that live in the hardest hit areas still have to deal with. I hope everybody out there has a peaceful winter and can heal from all this, and I'll wish for you, LI Phil, a fun non-destructive blizzard!

To everybody who makes CFHC what it is, thanks!