I think the comforting thing is that there is a very high confidence factor that Beryl will stay offshore, although the Outer Banks will certainly feel some pretty strong effects.
I'll be interested to see how the storms forming off Africa perform, and whether they'll be more of a threat to the east coast than they were last year. Frankly, we haven't fixed the damage here along the Gulf Coast from last year, and I'm not just speaking of Katrina damage. We're still trying to restore oil and gas production from the offshore platforms, for example.
I watched a one hour documentary about this subject the other night. It was pretty good. It centered on one small oil company's rigs. They had five rigs in the Gulf and four of them sank and the other was seriously damaged.