A Stormy Week By Hank Silverberg It was a dark and stormy week. No, this is not the first line of some trashy novel. The storm, hurricane Dorian, devastated the Bahamas, leaving death and destruction in it s wake and some dark overtones for the U.S. government. Weather forecasting is never an exact science. But most of the time the National Weather Service, a U.S. Government agency, gets it right. And, indeed the weather service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), were pretty much on the mark with what turned out to be a very hard storm to track. The people who needed the warnings were able to get good, accurate data and then make their choice to evacuate or stay. The aftermath of the storm could take weeks, months, or even years to play out, and the people of the Bahamas are in for a rough time. Some folks in Charleston, South Carolina and along the east coast got battered, but they for the most part are ...