There may soon be a more important reason for caring people to be in that part of the country...Gulf Coast under tropical storm warning
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/09/21/tropical.weather/CNN) -- The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning Friday for a long stretch of the Gulf Coast.
A subtropical depression dumps heavy rain along the Gulf Coast in a NOAA satellite image.
The warning area reaches from Apalachicola, Florida, to the mouth of the Mississippi River, including New Orleans, Louisiana.
The warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within 24 hours.
The warning was prompted by the development of a subtropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico.
Maximum sustained winds from the depression were clocked at 35 mph (55 kph), and forecasters expected the system to strengthen by Saturday.
Around 11 a.m. ET, the depression's poorly defined center was about 45 miles (75 kilometers) southwest of Apalachicola and 185 miles (300 kilometers) southeast of Mobile, Alabama. It was moving northwest at 8 mph (13 kph), the hurricane center said.
The system could generate tornadoes in southwestern Georgia, the Florida Panhandle and southeastern Alabama through Friday night, the center said.
I hope it's like last year but I suspect a busy hurricane season is ahead of us.