We all thought last year was the worst year imaginable for storms, but now this? Even here where I live, we had tornadoes set down all over the place.....and now Dennis? How can people really continue to live here if they have to repeatitively spend thousands, millions on their homes and properties?

It is a cycle. The hurricane season of the past few years are very active and we landed in an active hurricane decade that lasts 10 to 15 years. This happened in the past as well in the 1930's.

Maybe not all of it has to do with this, but I think some of the bad and crazy weather has to do with the tsunami last year.

Well I wish we(Texas) had the same summer we had last year. Tired of this 99, 98, 102, 98, 99, 104, 98, 97, 96 type of days. It's 90 at 8 am. I wish it rained here. But I don't think we will see it again until September.

According to disastercenter.com, here is what tornadoes have cost the state of Georgia since 1950 (and Georgia is about 14th worst in the country for tornadoes: most of them hit in counties immediately NW of Fulton/Atlanta or in counties in the SW.):

910 Tornadoes
111 Deaths
2714 Injuries
1.13 billion in adjusted costs
or, $5.47 per person per year (my fave stat. Cindy owes me a beer!!!)

Alabama has about the same number of tornadoes as Georgia, Florida has twice as many, and Texas has the most (by far).

Maybe not all of it has to do with this, but I think some of the bad and crazy weather has to do with the tsunami last year.

Tsunamis are after-effects of earthquakes. Tsunamis and hurricanes have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

I think it's Global Warming.

I think it's Global Warming.
I second that.

I believe that global warming is certainly a sub factor in the recently severe hurricane seasons, but its primarily the fact that we are re-entering an active hurricane cycle. The fact that there is so much more media attention to hurricanes makes it seem much worse than in the past, but in reality hurricanes have been bad for centuries. One of the biggest problems is that people insist on byuilding on the beach, especially on barrier islands. They are called barrier islands for a reason so I have little sympathy for people that insist on building in these areas that they KNOW are susceptible to hurricanes. Its kind of like people that build on the sides of canyons and those that build in flood plains.