“Today, many scientists, pilots, flight crews, meteorologists, computer programmers, historians have used their time and great minds, given to them by their creator, to solve the hurricane prediction problem.”
Absolutely! And we should remember that the National Weather Service is a government agency; all that weather science, all those prediction models, all that information that allows us to prepare is because of the government. We need to remember that when we start bashing the government; the National Weather Service has been hit by pretty bad budget cuts that will hamper its ability to do as good a job at forecasting in the future.
A hurricane that struck Galveston, TX, in 1900 wiped out the entire city with a loss of live of at least six thousand people, probably more. The 1938 hurricane mentioned earlier killed around 700 people. In neither case did anyone know that a hurricane was coming. I had relatives who moved to the Rhode Island shore in the 1960s and you could still see damage from the 1938 hurricane 30 years later.