Enjoy The Break!

The parking lot is empty at the National Hurricane Center (NHC), as November 30th marked the official end of the 2011 hurricane season, which has been whisper quiet this year for the residents of Florida.

OK, it the NHC parking lot isn’t really empty, we just thought that the above shot pictorially represented the fact that the ‘cane season was over.

The season began in devastating fashion for the people of Mexico with Hurricane Arlene, which hit near Veracruz and killed 25, causing more than $200 million in damage. And then there was the bizarre storm known as Irene, which tracked up the east coast, threatening major population centers, flooding the mid-Atlantic and northeast and making landfall in New Jersey.

The state of New York, not normally a state that has to track Caribbean storms, was hard hit by Irene, which ultimately caused 56 deaths in the Caribbean and the U.S.

Most of the storms that formed this year took a similar hard northward turn like Irene and went up the coast before blowing out into the Atlantic. One storm, Hurricane Emily, did threaten southeast Florida, but also turned out to sea.

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