Hurricane season

I think they will continue to get worse and worse. 

We live in Fort Lauderdale and I don't expect this year to be really any different from the last few. Some meterologists say that this is a 20 year cycle and it will contunie to get worse before it gets better and that this has happened before.
 
Just make sure your daughter is well prepared. We did just fine without electricity for 2 weeks after hurricane Wilma last year because we had just about everything we needed. Hurricane shutters, tubine caps, filled 6g water jugs, propane stove, propane bottles, 3g solar shower with biodegradable soap, 6' cooler, 2' cooler, tons of flashlights, 4 LED headlamps, 2 twin tube fluorescent lanterns, lots of paper products (paper towels, plates, cups, napkins, toilet paper), baby wipes and 2 buckets (to flush the toilets from the filled bath tubs in case water pressure is lost). Not to mention a good stock of easily prepared non-perishable foods. We don't have any kids so it was lots easier on us than it was on our friends that do. A few books, games and other stuff to keep busy is a big plus. We had a lot of fun getting together with the neighbors and playing games. I'm sure there is stuff I am forgetting but a lot of this stuff was stuff we didn't even consider that we needed until we had lost our power for a spell.
 
HTH!

We don't have hurricanes here (CA is earthquake country) but I heard the same thing on the news a couple of days ago.  They blamed it on global warming and said warmer water makes for more severe storms, although I don't see how this season could be any worse than last years. We'll be thinking about all you guys on the east coast and gulf coast.

Joyce & Max

If I remember correctly, Hurricane season starts officially on June 1, which is the end of our tornado season here in Texas. Generally, our tornado season is April through most of May, officially ending June 1. Then it starts to get hot and dry around here. Normally, the tornados start moving northward. This year was odd since most of the tornados happened in the midwest. Although my town officially had a tornado in March this year, literally right over my head, though it didn't touch down.
 
I want to take all those smarmy people who think a tornado is such a beautiful thing and put them directly in the damage path with their loved ones and see how beautiful they think it is then. Such statements are as stupid and callous as telling the people in San Francisco that the earthquake that collapsed the freeways and set the city on fire again was a marvelous example of plate tectonics. Ask the people of New Orleans, La and Gulfport, Miss if they thought Katrina was a magnficent sight of Mother Nature doing her thing. For that matter, ask anyone paying $3/gal of gas what they thought of Katrina.
 
I agree, from what I've read, weather runs in cycles, like El Nino.