I must confess to a somewhat morbid interest in the hurricane history of Florida and the Charlotte Harbor area in particular. Click on the link below to view an overview of some of my research on the subject, prepared in part to help justify writing a check for recently installed hurricane shutters. This article pre-dates Irma and was published as a three part series of articles in the Burnt Store Marina Beacon in 2015. It is also published in an updated form as a chapter in my book Where Do We Live?
