Or maybe, like how not having to listen to Dylan makes ya love listening to Nirvana?   ;~)

You're right, Carol - Canada's no hurricane-free zone. How could I forget, the tail end of a hurricane blowing into PEI the first night of my one and only visit there in the summer of 91 ... and how the spectre of Katrina had some of the locals here remembering the flooding in Toronto/Barrie as Hurricane Hazel raged through in late fifties...

But ahhhh ... New Mexico! Hmmm ... it's beautiful there all right, especially the night sky panorama, and most especially if you make do without trees. I travelled through there one summer with my parents, five siblings and 2 dogs in a non-air-conditioned Volkswagen bus, en route to Arizona. From what I recall, the average temp in New Mexico in Aug at high noon is about 130 deg F. Felt like a blast from the ole oil furnace coming through the open windows of that bus! But the humidity is about 0.

(And consequently, availability of fresh drinking water is also about 0 ....)