DERECHOS BLOW: I’ve been phasing myself out of the weather forecasting business, after realizing some readers actually listened intently when I’d call for “hurriquakes and lightning.” What I now wax wildly upon are storms that have passed, like last week’s wind whacking. It was an instant tree uprooter, not to mention a roof uplifter, as my St. Francis Parrish found out the hard way.

Where I had guesstimated the storm’s surge of wind at 80 mph, I afterwards heard that top gusts were officially blowing…