We're very concerned. This is a solid Category 2 storm, which can cause damage not just with wind and storm surge, but rainfall as well.
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Many times when we'd have a hurricane threaten the United States, we'd have a trough of low pressure over the eastern seaboard to turn the hurricane up to the north. That trough was not there much of the year this hurricane season.Max Mayfield
It's still coming. We might as well take advantage of the time. Gas up your cars and get all your supplies ready.
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Most people respond to what their local officials tell them to do. I'm very comfortable in putting our resources into training these state and local emergency managers.
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The 33 years that I've been at the hurricane center we have always been saying the directors before me and I have always said that the greatest potential for the nightmare scenarios, in the Gulf of Mexico anyway, is that New Orleans and southeast Louisiana area,
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