Tropical Update

I can't figure it. Perhaps we in Florida are radioactive or something but at the moment Gustav is on track to pillage Western Cuba this weekend and then trash Louisiana a few days later. Possibly as a Category Three which is ominously described by the National Hurricane Center as a Major Storm. So far the Keys are right out of that cone, as untouchable you might think as a lump of processed uranium. Meanwhile Hanna is in the Atlantic scheduled to coil like a snake on itself and is expected to make a big U-turn and head south and west (very weird that) to the Bahamas. Storms usually track east and north but occasionally they don't. All that leaves us with a big orange splotch just off the coast of Africa starting it's bowling ball run across the ocean. September is the peak month for hurricane season (which ends, none too soon on November 30th if the storms obey the calendar). My wife has a plane to catch to Turkey a week from Saturday. I think she would be royally pissed off if a storm interfered, so I have double reason to keep my fingers crossed for another week...