It seems the upper Texas coast where I reside, along with hopefully the rest of the Texas Gulf coast, will be missed by Hurricane Dean. I hope that I say this not too quickly, mindful of how forecasters kept expecting Rita to hit just southward down the coast in 2005. But unless something drastic happens Dean won’t hit at least in my neighborhood.
As Martha Stewart might point out, not being hit by a hurricane is a “good thing.” Humanity and experience lays a little guilt trip upon one when a bullet like a storm is dodged by one area and wipes out another. But this is one of those forces of nature beyond our control. And as I have said many times before such forces show that we human beings are not as all-knowing and all-powerful as we sometimes like to think.
Contrary to the air conditioning company commercial, you can stop a Trane, such as if you blast it to eternity with various types of ordnance. But you cannot stop a hurricane. Not yet at least.