"Did you survive?"

In 75% of my classes today, this was the greeting the professors provided the students with the day after Hurricane Igor savagely swept through town: “Did you survive?”  In my opinion, it is a very dumb question to have been asked by people of such high educational status.  I think it’s quite obvious when I am sitting right in front of you that I did indeed survive the hurricane. Maybe a more appropriate question would be “Know anyone who died?” or as my roommate’s prof asked, “Anyone have any horror stories?”  Just thought I’d share that with you.