One hardly knows where to begin.

In the span of about a week in mid-September, natural and man-made disasters came hurtling at us at the speed of sound bites.

Hurricane Ike wiped out Galveston, then swept up to Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky where it plunged millions into darkness. The storm completely bypassed Florida, providing a potential new marketing slogan for myflorida.com: Escape the Hurricanes — Visit Florida.

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