Tropical storm Rita is going to skirt southern Florida and turn into a hurricane in the gulf. I sure hope it doesn’t go north.
I told Tom and Dave to listen to the reports - since they are gonna be Biloxi trying to help some friends, they don’t need to be IN a hurricane! 
That really sucks.
Over the last few years it seems like there have been multitudes more hurricanes than usual and that they’ve been stronger than usual, too. And people still try to say that global warming doesn’t exist? It’s kind of fitting (and predictable) that most of the politicians who say it happen not to live in New Orleans or Florida!
As I recall prior to 2003 there were fewer hurricanes then average for a couple years. According to the meteorolgists that was the cause of the drought in Georgia and much of the SE U.S.
I could be wrong.
The Keys will get a blast from this latest TS/Hurricane.
Where is Fubar?
Fubar is an abreviation for “F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition”. It is a popular military phrase.
…as FUBAR and SNAFU go dancing off, hand in hand…
BOHICA is also appropriate for this situation.
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It’s another military acronym: “Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.”
military? there is no F… 
The “F” is implied. 
Air Force? seems a bit subtitle…
There are women in the military, but you can’t have sex with them because they don’t live in the same areas as men.
Yes, I know I’m stating the painfully obvious.
Current forecast shows it hitting near Galveston then up towards Houston.
This should be interesting.
I may be wrong, but I think there’s a consensus that the oceans are warmer (about a degree) than…I don’t know…at some point in the past. I think there’s also a consensus that’s contributing to the intensity of these storms. I think the debate is the extent to which human activity is causing it, as opposed to it being a weather cycle that’s independent of human activity.
A friend of mine on the Florida panhandle says he hasn’t been able to bring himself to take the plywood off his windows. They’re in more-or-less constant state of boarded-upness.
Dale
I can identify with this… I still have tape on my windows from last year’s hurricane bonanza.
Look at the bright side: maybe some storm-ravaged beach will cough up its hidden secrets of long-buried pirates’ treasure. Aaarrrrr, that’s what we pirates crave, stolen treasure … and booty, fer sure … Two things we pirates crave, stolen treasure and booty … er … and grog … Three! That’s three things we pirates crave, stolen treasure, booty and grog …
Arrggg!
