BullNBear52 -- very fortunately for us, Irma's now a fair bit less intense and less well structured than it was for most of the time it was raking the northern coast of Cuba -- still a plenty bad situation that is having and will have very significant impacts, of course -- but if, on otherwise the same track, Irma's eye/eye wall had remained entirely over water just off of Cuba, and as a result Irma hadn't been worn down to the extent it was by its interaction with Cuba, . . .
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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