Three Years Ago Today...

... Jeaux had been at work for several hours and Elizabeth and I were waiting for the power to go out. As I remember, it was about 9 AM when we lost power, and about that time that we saw shingles flying around. We didn't know if they were ours or the neighbors.

Gustav's predicted track on Wunderground.com has shifted a little west. Two of the six models (the purple and red lines) show him coming close to BR. If he were to follow the blue line, he'd make landfall very close to where Camille made landfall, and will also re-damage a lot of the area that was affected by Katrina. I think The yellow line takes it near at Galveston. Read Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson for a terrific history of the 1900 Galveston storm, one of the deadliest in history.