Subj : Batten down the hatches
To   : MATT MCCARTHY
From : JIM HOLSONBACK
Date : Sat Aug 27 2005 05:38 pm

Hi, Matt.

From close encounters of the hurricane kind over the past 12 1/2 months,
I have a permanent bookmark at www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

Projected path of that doggone Katrina keeps moving around, but as of
1PM CDT toady update, looks like it will be paying you a close encounter
visit this coming Monday.  Current projected path shows passing just
east of Lake Ponch, so looks like those big pumps you showed me earlier
this year will be getting a good workout.  As folks in S. Florida found
out, this one has a lot of rain in it, so good luck with keeping your
own pump going, also.

I know you have been through this before, and will no doubt try to
ride it out and keep your pump going.  I see, though, that it is now
115MPH CAT3, and may strengthen to CAT4 before making landfall.  If you
do decide to get out of Dodge, you are surely welcome up here - - we got
2 extra bedrooms.

But who knows, the way the path keeps shifting, it may miss you
altogether.  A day or two ago, projected path was well east of here, and
now it shows at least 200 miles west of here.

I think an unusual path - mirror image of a tilde ~ , followed by a
projected path about due north, right up the center of MS.

An active TS season so far.  Not even halfway thru the 6 months, we're
already up to "K" (11).  Last year,  Frances (6)visited me in central FL
over Labor day weekend, Sep 4-5.  Paper here said this week that
"normal" for this far along in the season would be only 4 named storms.

- - -  JimH.

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