While staying homebound during Hurricane Dorian, I try to keep myself preoccupied by creating new word puzzles for the National Puzzlers' League (which I'd been a member of for over 35 years). These puzzle creations of mine are submitted to this non-profit, in the hope that some of them will appear in their monthly newsletter "The Enigma" - for some of the other NPL members to solve...

My specialty are anagrams, such as the following:

DISEASE = A.I.D.S., SEE?
BAD CREDIT = DEBIT CARD
"TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM"
= TRUE HANDMADE CAR, METHINKS!

One of my earliest weather-related anagrams had to do with Hurricane Hugo, and the major American location where it had made landfall:

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
= HURRICANE HAS TOLL ON COAST


Needless to say, a few days before Dorian became a hurricane, it was a tropical storm - as it passed through Puerto Rico. So, I came up with the following new anagram, which I'd sent to NPL:

TROPICAL STORM DORIAN = MOST RAIN/COLD AIR TO P.R.

Luckily for me, and the countless residents of Broward County (not to mention all those living south in Miami-Dade and Monroe County) Hurricane Dorian turned north and skimmed along the east coast of Florida - sparing millions of lives, and only causing major flooding along its shores...

While staying in my condo, I had followed the storm's trajectory through the Bahamas (when it had reached 'Category Five' status) - watching both The Weather Channel and CNN. After seeing all that destruction and loss of human life, I was once again inspired to create yet another anagram for the NPL…

HURRICANE DORIAN IN THE BAHAMAS
= HINT: A RAIN HARMS; RUINED ABACO, EH?

Here's hoping that one of my anagrams eventually turns up in a future issue of "The Enigma" before year's end...