Just remember, it could've been much, much worse.
Hurricane Hermine's outer bands swept through the Bay area, apparently doing the worst of their damage in Largo (where raw sewage flowed up into the streets) and Pasco County, where at least 18 people needed to be rescued from their flooding homes. There were/are also some Pinellas and Hillsborough power outages. But we got off pretty light overall for an area that still hasn't had a direct hit in nearly 100 years, and our thoughts are with those folks to the north who didn't get off light at all.
As Hermine approached, the Tampa City Council approved a new annual stormwater fee to help offset the costs of improving the city's drainage. Pretty canny timing. "Why do you think we need this additional financial burden now?" "Look outside, ya idjit. Shit's floating away."
And finally, an unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded during a test firing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, taking with it a very expensive satellite that was to help Facebook bring internet to third world countries. I'm guessing Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg both clicked the angry-face emoji thingy.
This article appears in Sep 1-8, 2016.