You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing. But you do need one to track the path of a hurricane. Right now, Hurricane Charley should be making landfall in the Tampa Bay area. Why should I care, you ask? Because my one and only sister lives in Seminole, about 30 minutes west of Tampa. Not that she's worried -- she lives in a non-evacuation area (translation: her house is up high and not near the water), she's got the house stocked with supplies, and she's prepared to ride out the storm. She e-mailed me last night to tell me (a) even if she did have to evacuate, the two places she'd head -- Orlando and Daytona -- are along the projected storm path, and (b) this is the storm they've been waiting for ever since she moved to Florida twelve years ago, so at least now it'll be over with. I'm glad she's ready for it. Me, I'll take New Jersey -- no major earthquakes, no major tornadoes, no major hurricanes. Just a little snow in the winter. I can live with that. (PS -- what's eerie is that I was just down there visiting her last weekend. If I'd scheduled the trip one week later, I either wouldn't have been able to get in or get out.)