There are times when other people advise against, or even oppose, actions one wants to take. The ideas of being prudent and satisfying oneself, then, are in conflict. Who would willingly allow himself to be near the dangerous eye wall of a hurricane? In 1985, I rented an apartment in a large frame house built in 1881 in Ocean Grove, N.J. My work kept me near there for more than a year. It was a lovely spot — an hour north by train to Manhattan (where Sally and I would visit), south by car to Cape May, and west to Revolutionary War battle grounds at Monmouth, Princeton and Trenton. A hurricane was working its way up the Atlantic coast. The media descriptions of the storm provided considerable detail. A point was made that a hurricane’s low pressure winds rotate in a counter-clockwise direction. The most severe part of the storm’s perimeter is at the 3 o’clock point of the rotation.