Hurricane seasons pass by very fast. Some of them are filled with terror as homes and lives of innocent people are swept away in the storm surge, while other seasons just float by without the slightest hint that there was the possibility of a deadly storm. Though here in Texas, we don’t get to see many hurricanes, I still wonder how one little storm can pack such a punch.

Though most of the tough category five storms have been the size of Texas (more or less), the storms start out as tiny thunderstorms over the ocean. As they come in contact with warm waters, they start to grow and intensify until they reach that huge size. Then all that remains for them is to come in contact with land and destroy everything that they find.

Palm trees, orange trees, tiny houses, huge stadiums, and anything in between is the description of all the things a hurricane can destroy. Not only is the huge mass of bad weather a bad thing by itself, it also has some mini-me’s that accompany it. What do I mean? I mean all the rain bands that circle the eye wall, the tornadoes that start from it, the wind, and the storm surge are all it’s parts. Wait, that is what the hurricane is isn’t it?

But why are we so scared of these monsters of storms? I mean, we’re partly the reason that they can get so intense. If we weren’t making the earth so hot, those beasts could have been tamed, and I wouldn’t have been sitting in my house during summer writing all the random articles that I wrote. I would be out having a life.

It is true that this hurricane season wasn’t much for North America. Only a few close encounters with the mainland have occurred. However, this was all out of luck. According to hurricane.com, the average temperature for the waters within and a somewhat above the tropic zone is about 90 degrees. Just perfect for a hurricane to form. So the most dangerous storm to hit the world is just waiting to form sometime, somewhere around the tropic zone, and do you know the worst thing about it? We are the reason it can happen.

Yet, most of us don’t care. I know I don’t. I live in Texas, one of the worst places a hurricane can hit. What could possibly make me vulnerable? Yet, because of us people who don’t care about all the things that influence global warming, people die from the monsters that civilised people call the hurricane.