Last October, Hurricane Ike blew into Texas, shutting down power, facilities, and roads, forcing people to crowd into close, sweaty quarters to "ride it out", so to speak. Let's see...that was, what, eight, nine months ago? Houston hospitals are gearing up for "Hurricane Ike Baby" season, with births up an expected 25% over this time last year. Snowy states have blizzard babies, New York had blackout babies, it's beginning to look like people not born during a disaster are the norm. See, I was born in June, so the disaster the previous October that my parents experienced was, "two recent high-school graduates realize that getting laid makes rural living easier." I'm so glad they survived.