Gustav has the makings of a monster

gustav is looking pretty good there...a big time threat to the gulf and my oil derricks... ready to watch the speculators ratchet up the price of sweet crude...

but bob, you missed one wopper of a storm...

the bigger storm is in the Bronx... the all venerable Boston Red Sox blowing the pants off the ny yankees...

Yesterday, Wednesday, I just happen to go to Zachary, LA which is a
suburb just north of Baton Rouge. While in Wal Mart I discovered that all the bottled water was gone, sold! A customer told me at one of the Sam's Club in Baton Rouge, it was a "mad house" there. When I got back to Clinton which is roughly 30 miles northeast of Baton Rouge, people were buying bottled water like crazy. I was also told by people who had been to Baton Rouge it was the same thing, people were out buying bottled water and food. Again, this was Wednesday, days before Hurricane Gustav is due to hit Louisiana.
Chain stores like Wal Mart need to start now, not later in sending extra shipments to stores here and along the north Gulf coast area. Surely they, the store chains, have a plan already drawn up after what happened when Katrina struck here.

A VERY CONCERNED JAY HERROD

What's up Bob? Let me start by first saying that you are one of my favorite weathermen on TV.

I wanted to share something that would make you hands down the greatest weatherman to ever appear on TV. Go to jmccsci.com to learn why hurricanes are not powered by warm water, but by electrical forces. Yes, hurricane activity can be predicted much more accurately when the actual cause is known.

Also, I am wondering if you recieve any 'directional suggestions' regarding what to say, predict, etc. about hurricanes, like repeating over and over that the warm water is going to fuel this hurricane, or ignoring other storms to focus on just one storm?

I hope this message gets to you, and is used appropiately.

Take care,

Brandon

Gustav is sure taking his time to develop,but then again every storm is different.However Gustav weakened so much that he was almost below tropical storm criteria.The lowest i saw the winds were 45 mph and anything below 40 mph is considered a tropical depression i believe.If this is anything like Katrina,which i hope it's not even though it has the potental to be a monster like Katrina,the gas prices will be affected again and will sore,because there is so many oil pipelines in the Gulf.I think i heard on the news yesterday that the Texas major declared a state of emergency for some counties to just be on the safe side.Everyone on the Gulf Coast should be on high alert.

ITS NICE TO KNOW ALL ABOUT NEW ORLEANS BUT I AM FROM HOUMA LOUISIANA, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE INFO ABOUT THE CITY THAT IS BEING HIT, THANK YOU

WE AOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT, WE ARE STUCK IN A HOTEL ROOM FAR AWAY WITH NO NEWS! THANKS