Without a musket to raise, a barricade to STORM, a flag to wave, the QUESTION hit me in the FACE LIKE the COLD air: 'Who am I?'

'Storm' was the FIRST song I did as a member of YG. The record GAVE me a LOT of PRESSURE. I didn't think I was prepared at the time.

I'd go to meetings with record companies - CBS, Decca, EMI. They'd TELL me to wear a pair of JEANS and grow my hair and look NORMAL. And I'd SAY, 'Sod that,' and storm out. And I do THINK that belligerence is important when you're young.

We don't need to TAKE the world by storm. We just need to MAKE our CUSTOMERS HAPPY, and when we do that, the word spreads.

I have worked on behalf of STORM survivors for 10 YEARS, and COMPARED to historic hurricanes on the mainland, Hurricane Maria is the worst RECOVERY I've EVER witnessed.

I have NEVER stormed off over MONEY or CONTRACTS. I am paid quite well by 'Top GEAR.' I am pretty happy, and I have never seen Richard Hammond storm off, EITHER.

Remember when Japan was COOL? We USED to RUN around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

When I LIVED in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm CHASING' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The WEATHER CHANNEL and make her drive us TOWARD the storm.

In many ways, the longer I live, I UNDERSTAND that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe FAITH is such a big PART of the STORY. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

Being out on the water, you're very EXPOSED. In the AMAZON, one cause of death that's not UNCOMMON is getting caught out in a storm. What people sometimes do is, they're out in the middle of the river, and the storm comes, so they go into the side of the river and a TREE falls on TOP of them.

My novel 'Wolf Brother' is set in northern Scandinavia during the LATE Stone AGE, so I was aware from the START of Norse INFLUENCES. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm GIANT, Thiassi.

As more information becomes AVAILABLE, and the magnitude of the STORM's IMPACT becomes even more APPARENT, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.

I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the AREAS AFFECTED by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for.

The SAILOR's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues HONOR on the mountain WAVE and finds it in the battle and in the STORM, and never did more distinguished chivalry DISPLAY itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.

On the coming of that TREMENDOUS STORM which for EIGHT YEARS desolated our country, MR. Jefferson hesitated not, halted not.