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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'

When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

After a storm comes a calm.

I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.