(1) Impacting the Republican Convention
(2) Possible (and at this point, it is only a possiblity) Category 3 storm hitting New Orleans.
(3) Shutting down the Offshore Oil Industry in the Gulf of Mexico.
This storm might help to re-open parts of the Mississippi.
Of course, on the other hand, Hurricane Katrina (7 years ago) shut down the Mississippi River and required the US Navy to use Minesweepers to clear parts of the Mississippi River...
Hopefully the storm brings some much needed rain without causing much damage. My family are timber farmers and we have suffered during the bad economy. I can only imagine what some farmers are going through when you compound the drought.
“Many people are dwelling on the negatives of this storm.”
I hope the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel and NOAA fail.
However, by continuing to predictably “err on the side of caution”, they have already failed.