[metmom]

Hurricane Elena in 1985, IIRC, spent a few days in the Gulf traveling in circles before taking off somewhere.

The NWS was issuing landfall warnings for all different areas of the Gulf coast and finally left it up for the entire Gulf Coast cause they said that they had no idea where it was going to make landfall once it decided where to go.

[dayglored]

> Hurricane Elena in 1985, IIRC, spent a few days in the Gulf traveling in circles before taking off somewhere. The NWS was issuing landfall warnings for all different areas of the Gulf coast and finally left it up for the entire Gulf Coast cause they said that they had no idea where it was going to make landfall once it decided where to go.

Thank you for mentioning Elena, I'd forgotten all about that one (I was living up in NY so I didn't experience it). Yeah, hurricanes pretty much do whatever they please. We're fortunate that at least some of them agree with the predictions enough that folks can accommodate, evacuate, etc. as needed.