Is it just me, or do we seem to be having a mild hurricane season? I bring this up because I was watching the news last night and saw the formation of Tropical Storm Chantal over the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and Massachusetts. It caught my eye because we don’t seem to be having a lot of hurricanes (going all the way back to last season) these days.

Didn’t the “experts” predict that we would see a dramatic rise in hurricanes due to global warming? Aren’t insurance companies making it almost impossible to buy insurance along the southern seaboard? Isn’t the world coming to an end?

Now mind you, I’m not a weather junkie. I don’t watch The Weather Channel, nor do I visit www.WeatherChannel.com. To me, the weather is what happens when I stick my head out the door.

The only time the weather becomes important to me is when I am traveling (Erickson has full-service retirement communities in Baltimore, Boston, Washington D.C., Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, and the New York/New Jersey metro area). Simply put, I hate getting stuck in airports.

So tell me, how does the weather affect your life? How has this changed as you’ve aged? Does the topic of “weather” interest you at all or are my wife and father-in-law unique in their strange attraction to the weather?

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