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Hi all,

For the sake of discussion, anyone have any guesses where Hurricane
Gustav will make landfall? A bit early I know but what the heck, I'll
toss out my guess and say 25-50 miles east of New Orleans and a strong
cat3

You're putting it pretty close to the Mississippi Gulf Coast where
Katrina went ashore. Yet there doesn't seem to be any strong steering
currents to deflect the storm from a straight course (which is
extremely unusual for a normally erratic hurricane).

I went through Hurricane Camille in 1969 and lived in New Orleans
East in the mid 1970s where it was 9 feet below sea level. Ask
me how much I love now living in the mile-high city of Denver.

I'll bet Gustav comes ashore somewhere that hasn't been hit
for a very long time. Lightning strikes the same place often but
not hurricanes.

That having been said, the Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi gulf
coasts can expect, at a minimum, a lot of wind and a lot of rain.
Some place will see severe flooding and destruction.

It's ironic landfall will coincide with the Republican National
Convention. Imagine news coverage alternating between storm
damage and speech-making in Minnesota.

Poor President Bush and his wannabe successor. If they didn't
have ban luck, they wouldn't have any luck at all.