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Yes, I know the original fable (which you probably learned in or before grade school) was about blind men and an elephant, not a hurricane. Like many very old stories, it exists in many variations, but they all involve a group of blind men trying to describe an elephant on the basis of what they perceive by feeling it. Since each is feeling a different part, each comes up with a very different picture. One feeling a leg thinks it’s some kind of a tree, one feeling the side thinks it’s a wall, one feeling the tail thinks it’s a