7
“I don’t like the look of this,” Denver muttered as he and Simon stood in his office, watching the seventy-five-inch TV screen on the wall opposite his desk.
A massive tropical storm was swirling out in the Atlantic just south of the Bahamas. Denver retrieved the TV remote from his desk and turned the volume up as a meteorologist appeared on the screen and started speaking.
“We are following the development of this new tropical storm. We have received word that it has been assigned a name by the National Hurricane Center based on the strict procedures of the World Meteorological Organization. The storm is now Tropical Storm Blair. If you are on the southeast coast of the United States or the Caribbean, please stay tuned to your local news channel for updates.”
“Blair.” Simon choked o
