hurricane warning derivatives folks note intended update may concerned progress toward developing commercial hurricane warning derivative product line products clear numerous entities underlying exposures hurricane warning frequency duration objective develop derivative products enable entities effectively hedge exposure generated partial brainstorm style list natural counterparties might according underlying exposure pro hurricane anti hurricane weather channel resorts home depot cruise ships lowes riverboat casinos cnn chemical plants refineries local tv stations u armed forces dry ice manufacturers athletic teams chainsaw manufacturers city governments insect repellant manufacturers state governments obvious numerous naturally offsetting parties important note pro hurricane entities macro nature anti hurricane entities typically regional thus documented frequency duration data regional location thought anti hurricane entities would interested regional products pro hurricane entities would likely interested bundled regional products depending exposure thus far collected documented u hurricane warning data 1980 2000 form excel database data sorted year storm location u coastline total hurricane warning duration well number discrete hurricane warnings primary data sets interest given location year storm u coast divided 11 different geographic regions roughly similar size regions new england mid atlantic virginia north carolina georgia south carolina east florida west florida florida panhandle orleans miss bama lousiana texas data set may yet sufficient price modeling purposes confirmed expectation hurricane warning frequency duration quite volatile unpredictable believed volaility graphically depicted mathematically represented could used effectively demonstrate would customers impact hurricane warning frequency business financials many cases businesses may well aware exposure may quantified certainly probably felt risk would wear move forward modeling front data certainly need scrutinized correct skewing factors political trends satellite availability population trends etc additionally need go back time long accuracy decline marketing front certainly open ideas believed weather channel would natural party product given positive relationship currently might easiest sell ideas welcome regard approach customers please respond questions comments concerns project thanks charlie