But first, if you have family in the Caribbean, if you evacuated ahead of the storm, if you're still cleaning up from Hanna or Gustav, tell us your story.

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Ms. HOKAMP: From the start of the storm through the end of the storm, you're looking at probably 10.

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"If you're on the Everest team that's on the penultimate climb, and a storm comes in, you don't say 'What the heck, we're going anyway, " she said.

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If you're one of the many, many BlackBerry Storm buyers who cleaned out inventories at Verizon stores on Friday, all that time spent waiting in the cold just became a bit more worthwhile.

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Also, even if you're not close to where the eye of the storm reaches land, they could be pretty large, too.

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Mr. STORM: Well, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, you're sitting there in the dark and all these lights just drop down and they're almost, you can almost reach them.

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