All hurricane-related losses and injuries in Florida count as punishment by nature/God for stupidity: the area has been thwacked by hurricanes every autumn since long before its current inhabitants migrated there. If you don’t want extreme weather, move to Britain or somewhere equally dull; otherwise stop whining.

However, it appears that nature/God may be taking a more directly interventionist path than that: the hurricanes’ route this year coincides remarkably with the state’s electoral map…