The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota.  Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north.  Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge.  If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic.  Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing.  The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University.  Caught a bus. Was called the  Century 21 Exposition .  Also the Seattle World's Fair.  10 million joined me on a six-month run.  My first. These a...

First, about Super Hurricane Milton.  Started the day at 180 MPH, dropped to 145 MPH, then re-strengthened to 155 MPH.  The size also grew.  The eye was yesterday headed directly for Tampa as a Category 3, but today seemed to move south towards Sarasota.  If this path prevails, Tampa might just miss its storm of the century, for it is vulnerable to storm surge.   A 2010 evacuation survey  found that 2 million of its 3 million population in the Metro area would need to evacuate if a Category 5 hurricane came.  2000 deaths and $250 billion in damages were projected.  With the eye veering south, Tampa would further be saved from impact by the forceful northeast quadrant.  If there is any further movement to the south, areas including Cape Coral and Naples would then be in especial danger.  Milton is now projected to leave Florida Thursday morning, with the eye over Cape Canaveral, as a Category 2 into the Atlantic. Tomorrow we're off t...