like Izzy, kind of grew up with it... moved to Florida in 1955 and first hurricane was Donna in 1962 (we had maybe two days warning)serious fresh water flooding and water line break...spent a couple of years in the Far East as a Radio Traffic Analyst where I had access to intelligence summaries around the world... foreshadowing the war on terror, and saw firsthand evidence of the terrorist threat in the Philippines... the Philippines and Thailand were pretty much third world at the time, and living down town usually included no electricity at random times..when I started teaching I used a "get out of Dodge" scenario to work with student's decision making skills...one of my fellow teachers was LDS and she introduced me to the 72 hour "go bucket", and that became my focus for a hurricane related scenario, and on several occasions a real storm...became a practical shooter about the time I started teaching to improve my skill set...came to this forum after I retired a couple of years ago, and by then I had refined my thoughts on hurricane preparedness after the 04/05 season, when we were over run... have enjoyed the courtesy and information sharing...