If you’re holding this paper and still on or around LBI, then good for you. Welcome to week two of Local Summer. This is when things get good. All surfers’ eyes – the ones with the crow’s feet sun lines around them – are on Hurricane Lee. And Lee could prove to be very, very interesting.

There is something very special about the beach after Labor Day. I will admit that for the first nine years of my life, I didn’t give it much consideration.