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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.