When this thread came up, I just smiled, put my feet up, and thought - "How fortunate to live in southern California, where there are no hurricanes (nearly - one is reported to have reached Los Angelesin 1928, I believe).

But anyway, a tropical depression in the eastern Pacific is spinning northward, pumping moisture into our atmosphere, resulting an a 20% probability of rain tonight and tomorrow morning, with a chance of thunderstorms!

And it isn't even earthquake season, yet.....