Well, in case you haven't noticed, June 1 kicked off hurricane season. Of course, if you have never lived on the Gulf Coast, that's a "so what?" mental moment, and before we moved to South Texas, that is exactly what would cross my mind when someone mentioned "hurricane season." However, the day I went to work for Exxon in Kingsville, which is in South Texas, a hurricane came ashore north of Corpus Christi, Texas, and it affected a large area south of where it came ashore, with winds clocked at almost 70 mph. We actually spent our first night in Texas fleeing from a hurricane. A

ctually, the storm wind just rattled a few windows where we were staying, and we brushed it off as a non-event.

A few years later, after two years in Kingsville and two years in Benghazi, Libya, we moved back to Texas and ended up buying a house in Portland, Texas, a small Corpus Christi Bay bedroom community across the bay from downtown Corpus Christi. The next few years were a real eye-opener when it came to hurricane season, complete with hurricane maps that were updated every few hours if a storm increased in intensity or was in the Gulf. However, we didn't have a hurricane problem until a storm named Celia came along. As the storm entered the Gulf, coordinates were broadcast every........

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