We will carry on with a spirit that says no matter how bad a storm is, we come back.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

What is important to note is that no matter what their mission, meteorologists studying storms in the field contribute to the storm-observing process.

CNN: Why we chase storms

Mr. DANIEL YERGIN (Cambridge Energy Research Associates): When people build offshore platforms, they build them for a hundred-year storm. 2005 was a year that you had not one but two hundred-year storms within a matter of weeks of each other, and the result was one of the biggest energy shocks since the 1970s.

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