The was a time when I thought hurricanes were fun. Of course, there was also a time when I thought New Kids On The Block and Boyz II Men were cool. Those days are over.

Hurricanes are like snow days for Florida kids: School is cancelled and we stay home watching weather reports. Unless there’s a direct hit and you have to spend the next days, weeks or months cleaning up the yard, hurricanes were exciting as a kid. All together, I remember or guess (because I was too young to remember) that I have been in 6 hurricanes and a handful of tropical storms or depressions.

My friend Tristan, whose father was in the Navy and who lived in Key West, Homestead and now Pensacola, puts her hurricane count at 10 plus about 8 tropical storms. She survived Andrew in Homestead and Ivan here. Needless to say, hurricanes are not fun for her. After last year, they’re not fun for me either.

So I’m wondering what other people’s hurricane scores are. How many storms have you weathered?