raked florida. of course, last year about this time, a 1 a, the famous road that goes up in fort lauderdale. it did not look like this. the file from then, tropical storm sandy blew pass over the seawall, flooding streets and couple million dollars in damage. three days later october 29th it caused $65 billion damage up north. comparing predictions versus reality, this past may, noaa predicted 13 to 20 named storms, seven to 10 hurricanes and three to six major ones, so far, karen is now just named storm number 11 and we've only seen two hurricanes, humberto and ingrid, neither of them major. last year for 2012, the prediction was nine to 15 maimed storms, fourthfour to eight, hurricanes. reality was 19 named storms and 10 hurricanes. that was much business ier is than predicted. in 2011 the predicted numbers looked like this at end of the