Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Ernesto, just go away

We thought the hurricane season this year was off to a slow start. Katrina, one year ago, was the eleventh named storm for 2005. This year has had four storms that posed no threat. But I kept telling myself that Hurricane Andrew was the first named storm of the 1992 season (sheesh, it seems like yesterday). Now we have this storm that has pounded Cuba and emerged into the Florida Straits, and is on its way to. . .who really knows? Take a look at the 3-day guesstimate map, which shows it going way east of where I live:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/150927.shtml?3day?large

The bad news is, this is a part of Florida that doesn't need another hurricane. They were criss-crossed by three hurricanes in 2004, one right after the other:

http://img.coxnewsweb.com/C/05/92/61/image_961925.jpg

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