Storm Tracking Time Again

[BOSSHOG]

"Ernesto" should be in the gulf next week:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200605_5day.html

and may be a category one by Wednesday. Keep an eye out folks.

[hobbit709]

1. Better get ready now

cause you know how helpful FEMA is. Operation YOYO-Part II.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. I bet Shrub is confident as ever, look at all the success with Katrina

[Warpy]

3. Well, everything else has fizzled this year

and maybe Ernesto will wimp out, too.

We can hope. It would be nice to have a year off from these storms to catch our collective breath, do some rebuilding, restock storm supplies, and form strategies to deal with the inevitable if we live in coastal areas.

I wish the best to everyone on the coasts. I'm still glad I was able to sell my pop's house quickly this year so that I no longer have to worry.

Now about these damn NM floods....

[BOSSHOG]

4. The local TV weather guy

doesn't seem to think that this storm will amount to too much but mother nature has a warped sense of humor. After katrina, such pictures of storms heading to the gulf give you that unexplainable feeling in the stomach.

[bigscott]

6. and gas prices heading higher - just in case!

[HeeBGBz]

10. Most of the things that would slow it down are gone

Except for one area in the western caribbean that will probably be dissipated by the time the storm gets in that area.

This is prime hurricane time - end of August to first weeks of September. The warm waters in the Caribbean and the Gulf are gonna feed this sucker.

[Nimrod2005]

5. I hope it does not hit Cancun...That region took a real beating last year.

Feel sorry for the folks there...

[malaise]

7. We've been tracking since yesterday

Unless he slows down, we'll only face a Tropical Storm. The track is very similar to Gilbert in 88, just slightly south of Jamaica.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1977401

add.

[HeeBGBz]

8. Gas up

This is one to watch anywhere from Houston, TX to Pensacola, FL.

[durrrty libby]

9. We've been lucky so far this year

I hope the luck continues

[Balderdash]

12. Oh lordy

Just in time for the Katrina anniversay too. It's gonna be a scary couple of months for us down here in the Gulf.

[Lochloosa]

11. GL BOSSHOG. May you be on the western side of her.

:toast:

On Edit: Let's see how many "get" that western reference.

[Hugin]

13. I was betting that was why it is beginning to dry up here...

The monsoons pause when there is a storm in the Atlantic.

[malaise]

14. Tropical Storm Ernesto

is now moving WNW. The good news for Jamaica is that he's picked up speed again -now 16mph.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200605.html

[Jacobin]

15. early models:

No one knows right now

[malaise]

16. It might break up and disappear

if it moves quickly.