What with the approach of Christmas and the winter season, it would not be surprising if people forgot one of the dates for which we should be grateful this Thanksgiving weekend. Today.

Today marks the end of the 2008 hurricane season, according to the National Weather Service’s calendar. Thank goodness. We will contentedly shiver and throw another log on the fire these days in return for a respite from tropical weather that can spin into deadly and devastating fury.

Hurricanes may not have been plentiful this year but they were costly to us in this region in human and ...

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