As summer draws to a close, a co-worker is checking things off her Summer of 2021 to do list. After vising 18 Nebraska Passport sites this past weekend, she has only 9 more to go to reach her goal of visiting all the sites on this year’s list. But those nine sites will have to wait at least a week, for this week she has reservations for a hot-air baloon ride.

In my student days, I read a Life magazine story about a hurricane which struck the United States and added experiencing a hurricane to my list of things I wanted to do. I had seen floods, tornadoes, hail storms, blizzards and fires...