[Prospero]

And I'm on the Pungo, looking at the Tropical pattern pulling ocean air on-shore. The old timers, and "us'n's" have gotten pretty tuned into the barometric pressure in the past seven years... Floyd, direct hits with Isabel, last year... and a host of iddy biddies, life Earl and such.

Belhaven, across the water's, been flooded six times in the past six years, a generation after Hazel. Taint Global Warming, though.

Anyway, these iddy biddies can be lots of fun, without the sheer terror of Isabel's direct hit here. You can feel the power without the stinging rain and the wunnerful, wunnerful clean-up.

What's the first name for the season, 'cause this'n's gonna get that moniker within a few hours. It'll blossom with sunrise over the Gulf Stream, and get lifted north by the back end of the high ahead of that ridge movin' over the Smokies...

If that front stalls, it could meander, like... was it Earl? It actually side-swiped us twice and then stalled off the coast for almost ten days before it came back on shore again...

[RipSawyer]

"Belhaven, across the water's, been flooded six times in the past six years, a generation after Hazel. Taint Global Warming, though."

Well, course hit's global warmin' Doc, at dere Gore feller from Tennessee dun tole us at's whut it tis en you know he don't never lie, en ennyway, sides at hit's ben a couple generations since at dere Hazel cum thru heer. I member ol' Hazel purty good, I'se bout ten yeer old back yen an' she done a right smart o' damage heerbouts, messed up a bunch o' cotton en corn en sich stuff.
I shore got me a powerful thirst and they ain't no beer in this house. I best be gittin' me some 'fore that thare storm gits heer.