Déjà Vu
If you watch tropical events for an extended period one of the problems is that they reuse names every six years. This year they are using most of the names that were used in 2004, which was a very busy year indeed.
There are four names that are not being reused: Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne. If a storm is bad enough, the name is retired. Those four and Tropical Storm Bonnie hit Florida that year and we got the first hint that FEMA was broken. The Bush brothers talked a good game, it was an election year after all, but after the election the people affected were ignored.
We got all the way through to Otto in 2004, but few people realized that it was just a scrimmage, and the real game would be 2005. We were too busy trying to clean up the mess so we could rebuild, and neither FEMA or the insurance companies were making it easy.
