Not sure how many of noticed this... but, this storm is showing some potential to be extremely damaging....
FIVE of the 16 models on NWS now show this storm STOPPING, and turning southwest.... some say this will occur just off-shore... some say, after it moves inland.
If this storm cozies up to the coast just south of Baton Rouge, and then drifts southwest.. something like 4000 off-shore platforms will be affected (practically ALL of them)... and the damage from wind and flooding could be severe all the way from Baton Rouge to Freeport, or below.
This scenario is certainly not unprecedented... Carla, in ‘62, hit the coast north of Corpus, then stopped, backed up, and came in again further up the coast.
This... looks bad.
I’ve had a bad feeling about this storm ever since it formed.
Check out the developing storms off the coast of Africa on NOAA. I know its still extremely early to tell if they will continue to develop or even make landfall but one of the bad boys is already getting more and more powerful with each weather update.