UNH Today

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LAST OCTOBER HURRICANE WILMA was bearing down on the Northeast, with three storms slamming into New England simultaneously. As I drove toward Durham to meet freshmen for this story, 50-mile-an-hour gusts jerked the family minivan across traffic lanes and I mused about wild catastrophic forces either unseen or unheeded, the desire to drive straight, and the nagging sense of feeling Lilliputian-sized in a Gulliver-sized world.