During Hurricane Charley, the local authorities throughout Florida performed superbly and courageously, and every resident of the state should be grateful. However, the actions of the National Hurricane Center need to be questioned and scrutinized. Its predictions and forecasts were, at best, wildly inaccurate. At worst, the forecasters of the National Hurricane Center may have been criminally incompetent. We have all heard that no one can predict what a hurricane will do. If predictions cannot be relied upon, then why issue them? Why did they issue forecasts that Tampa Bay would be struck, thereby causing millions of people outside the...