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And we could really use the rain.

Interesting point. Hurricanes are treated as bad things, when a sizable percentage of the Southeasts rainfall is tropical storm dependent.

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After Katrina, we were bombarded with baseless assertions that global warming was causing increased hurricane activity. As Rush Limbaugh predicted, for the first time in history, the Democrats and their friends in the drive by media politicized a natural disaster, successfully blaming President Bush for Katrina. In spite of this spin campaign, the citizens of Louisiana knew exactly where the blame should be, with Democrat Governor Kathleen Blanco and elected Republican Bobby Jindal.

Here is a link to an article about what really happened at the Superdome that I came across via Instapundit:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/34103.html