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August 29, 2008
My family has had a defenseless beach shack on a barrier island—Fort Myers Beach, Florida—for 53 years. Built up on pilings to allow passage to storm surge, it survived a direct hit from Donna in 1960 and took glancing slaps on both cheeks from Charley in 2004 and Wilma in 2005. So we anxiously watch every hurricane that heads into the Gulf of Mexico.
This expert sailor and Florida dweller knows his hurricane science and writes a crisp, clean sentence any science writer would envy. I go to him not just to track a hurricane, but to understand it. He calls himself Seablogger and his blog Fresh Bilge. And, as you'll see from his bio, he lives in the path of his own personal storm.
(Annie Gottlieb) |
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