Wesley, I don't think anybody is advocating standing before a hurricane and ordering it to stop, like King Canute ordering the tides to recede. Get out of harm's way, by all means. But a scienrific inquiry into the dynamics of hurricanes with an eye toward possibly pulling their teeth before they become hurricanes might just turn up a way of doing it. Or if not, you'd sure learn a lot more about hurricanes that you knew before. Knowledge is power, even if the basic message is still "Run like hell!"

I have a hunch that more than one meteorologist is already hard at it.   

Don Firth