"The Hurricanes, in my heart, are always going to be the Whalers," said Mr. Victor.
"When I saw what happened at Hurricane Katrina, my heart just broke, seeing all those animals on rooftops," said Tina Delaney, who runs an errand service in San Francisco.
But they say mistakes in judging intensity are still common because of a lack of measurements of factors like water temperature; momentary vagaries of atmospheric conditions in a storm's path; and the complicated physics in the milling thunderstorms at a hurricane's pulsing heart.
Forecasters said the heart of Hurricane Earl was not likely to made landfall, remaining about 100 miles offshore and dealing Cape Hatteras a glancing blow before moving north, perhaps strafing Cape Cod and the Maine shoreline on Friday night and Saturday.
The campaign was started by a group of men involved in another Elizabeth-based charity, created in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, called At Heart's Length, who had heard about the men's involvement from a friend.
"I eventually changed my attitude on account of a giant hurricane that destroyed the heart of a city I hadn't even known because it and our campus were like separate worlds," he reflected last weekend, back on Long Island to organize his second Pnola fund-raiser; the first, in 2006, yielded $20,000 that translated, thanks to free student labor, to $750,000 worth of rebuilt homes.
After all, who wants to visit the Caribbean in summer the heart of hurricane season or stay at Kuala Lumpur in June, when temperatures can surpass 90 degrees?
We would have flown in the animal cracker box back from Hanover but after hearing about the Hamburg flight we'd like to stick to big airplanes leaving the evil heart of hurricane Emma, not small planes flying into it.
We would have flown in the animal cracker box back from Hanover but after the Hamburg flight we'd like to stick to big airplanes leaving the heart of hurricane Emma, not small planes flying into it.
But we did not particularly enjoy late summer, the heart of hurricane season.
In the days after the hurricane, an increase in heart attack deaths in the Harrison County area was noted.
