Hurricane Gustav & Tropical Storm Hanna

According to the National Weather Service:

Gustav has maximum sustained winds of 115 MPH at this time. Gustav is expected to make landfall on the northern Gulf Coast on Monday 9/1. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.

Hanna's max sustained winds have decreased to 45 MPH. Hanna is expected to approach the central Bahamas in the next couple of days.

Please rush your plans to protect life and property to an immediate completion in the northern Gulf coast and evacuate immediately if not sooner.

Hurricane Gustav & Tropical Storm Hanna

Gustav has become a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph. This very dangerous storm is exiting from western Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico. Gustav is expected to become a Category 5 hurricane before it hits the Louisiana coast Monday.

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Tropical Storm Hanna has max. sustained winds of 50 mph at this time. Hanna was centered about 265 miles ENE of Grand Turk Island as of 8 p.m. EDT. Hannah is forecast to strengthen and track W to WNW this weekend.

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Elsewhere in the Atlantic a tropical wave and broad low pressure area are being watched closely.

Tropical Storm Fay

The center of T.S. Fay has moved westward and is somewhere near the Gulf of Mexico. Here in NE Florida we continue to get hammered by trailing bands of rain circulating around the center of the storm. Several deaths have been caused by T.S. Fay, including a person killed when a tree fell on their car, and a man who died while testing his generator inside his house.

NEVER, EVER, RUN A GASOLINE MOTOR INSIDE A BUILDING.

A TV news crew (Channel 4 in Jacksonville) filmed a city crew placing sandbags around a Congress womans personal residence at city expense. The Congress woman told the news crew she would repay the city. We will wait and see.

Tropical Storm Fay

Fay continues to inundate NE Florida with torrential rains and high winds. The center of Fay has moved towards the west coast of Florida, but in a tropical storm or hurricane, most of the winds and rain are on the North and East side of the storm.

We've had a windy, rainy day. Some streets are flooded. People who live in flood prone areas said that they've never seen anything like this.

Tropical Storm Fay

Tropical Storm Fay has been stalled over Central Florida and is just starting to move to the North West. We are just north of the center of the storm and we are experiencing torrential rains and heavy winds with gusts up to 60 MPH. I'm posting this early before we get a power failure.

Tropical Storm Fay

Tropical Storm Fay was responsible for at least 5 fatalities in the Caribbean within the last week.

After passing over Cuba and the Florida Keys, Fay made landfall in SW Florida near Everglade City.

Fay is currently over Central Florida and is expected to head NE into the Atlantic Ocean, intensify and curve back toward the Northwest into NE Florida or SE Georgia.

As usual lines at the supermarket and gas stations are long in areas ahead of the storm.

Tropical Storm Edoard

Low pressure formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico between Pensacola and Tampa Sunday morning, 8/3. The storm quickly became Tropical Depression #5 and intensified into Tropical Storm Edoard during the day.

Edoard is moving west in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall in Texas as a hurricane on Tuesday 8/5/08.