Carol - I look at it differently. Hurricanes are formed when a bunch of conditions are met but it feeds off the latent energy in the ocean water. Low pressure storm systems feed off that same heat energy, so my viewpoint is that every storm removes some of the potential energy a hurricane can use when it forms - reducing the severity. So I hope for some big-but-not-too-big storm systems in the area to keep a major hurricane from forming in the windwards or leewards.