I guess no one cares about this that don't live in FL., and are more interested in Obamacon vs McCain. WAKE UP - these are killer storms. Gustav has restrengthened to a hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph. The 3-day projection still has the storm steering away from the Tampa Bay area but anything could still turn these storms to the East as well at the last minute. The latest 5 p.m. advisory shows the Category 1 storm has top sustained winds of around 75 miles per hour, and is still on track to hit near the Cayman Islands, Cuba, and later, somewhere along the Gulf Coast. Gustav is moving to the northwest near 12 mph and is located about 100 miles east of Grand Cayman and about 380 miles east-southeast of the western tip of Cuba.

We still got more to worry about living in the tropics folks. Hanna is moving toward the west-northwest and the center of Hanna is forecast to pass the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico tonight and Saturday, and be northeast of the southeastern Bahamas on Sunday. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph with higher gusts. Gradual strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days and Hanna could be near hurricane strength on Sunday. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 85 miles, and rain bands associated with Hanna could produce rainfall accumulations of 1 to 2 inches across portions of the Leeward Islands.

The people in Florida feel as if they are between two bookends right now, and all you in Utah care about is McCain's VP and Obamacon's. That's sad.

Don't worry Bush will take care of it like he did the last time.

President Bush is in the same position as Mr. Obama was when Mr. Obama said "this is above my pay-grade".
Whatever his faults, and they are many, President Bush is NOT in charge of nature. It is ridiculous to build a city prone to hurricanes BELOW sea level and then not expect problems. Those levees that failed weren't built during the Bush administration, and neither the Governor of LA nor the mayor of New Orleans were Republicans!
Neither were most of the people who didn't evacuate.
It's interesting to me that the people of Mississippi, and later in the season of Texas which was hurricane-hit a bit later, have managed to survive the hurricane while New Orleans is still whining for somebody else to solve their problems.
Maybe since the city is located in a terribly vulnerable position some attention should be given to relocating rather than expecting the rest of the country to bail them out--literally--each time a hurricane hits.

And I am sure Obamacon and the O'bots will rush right in, opps, we know they won't do that in a Democrap Controled Congress, that BLOCK everything, will save the day hey?.

Let's see the liberals stand on the water along with their master that walks on water the foolish Obamacon, and block Gustav and also Hanna. That's what I want to see.

Than we all can say "Don't worry, the blocking everything Congress will take care of it like they did the last time". And did nothing.

Gustav is strengthening as it approaches the Cayman Islands. The 8 p.m. advisory shows the Category 1 storm has top sustained winds of around 80 miles per hour, and is still on track to hit near the Cayman Islands, Cuba, and later, somewhere along the Gulf Coast. Gustav is moving to the northwest near 11 mph and is located about 25 miles south of the Islands of Little Cayman and Cayman Brac and about 365 miles east-southeast of the western tip of Cuba. Gulf Coast states are watching the storm carefully. Mississippi is telling coastal residents hit by Hurricane Katrina to evacuate this weekend, and Grand Isle, LA residents also are under a voluntary evacuation order. If the storm hit the Gulf Coast, it would strike only days after communities marked the three-year anniversary of Katrina.

A new study of Hurricane Katrina fatalities in New Orleans says 49 percent of the victims were age 75 or older. "I'm not surprised by statistics like that," offered Stan Loveday, logistics manager for the Clearwater Fire Department. Part of his job is keeping track of people with "special needs" who will need assistance evacuating. Loveday says several hundred Clearwater residents have registered with his department but "Judging by what we see in other communities, if we have 700 on our list, we should be seeing 1,700 to 2,000." At Prospect Tower, home to more than 200 people age 62 and up, Lyla Ridley coordinates evacuation plans. She says some residents will not go. "The older people in their 80's and 90's just don't want to go. They're not going to go to a shelter. They have a fear of the shelter," she explained. Ridley says some want to stay with their pets, while others are from other parts of the country and do not understand the dangers of hurricanes.