Records for damage and such are obviously going to be broken all the time, because we have more and more people jammed in everywhere. If you have a once-in-a-hu

Records for damage and such are obviously going to be broken all the time, because we have more and more people jammed in everywhere. If you have a once-in-a-hundred-years storm that doesn't hit anybody directly, nobody cares and it isn't recorded as such. The other bit is that there is every incentive to magnify the impact of every event, to get a chance to suck some of those sweet, sweet Federal dollars. At this point, when we get a wimpy Noreaster that drops a foot of snow, people are rushing to declare it a disaster emergency.