Gustav is Going to Intervene

Hurricane Gustav may hit landfall in Louisiana on Monday the start of the Repubs convention. Is Mother Nature going to take this year's election into her own hands? If they fiddle through another hurricane, what are their chances?

If Gustav does reach landfall at New Orleans, and I sure hope it does not, it'll bring back nasty memories for the Republicans - and likely soak up a lot of the news time that would have otherwise been pushed at the Twin Cities. I don't think the Republicans can weather having a party while a hurricane hits. The current plot shows Gustav's center just off the Louisiana coast at 0800 on Monday - the start of the Republican Convention. I haven't as yet checked out ocean surface temperatures in the Gulf. This time of year though should see them at or near their highest. It takes 85º F. surface temps to sustain a hurricane. In 2005 Katrina picked up strength at a pace seldom seen - greatly due to high water surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico that summer. It caught a lot of folks off guard. Let's hope that these back to back political conventions aren't distracting applicable public servants from keeping an eye on Gustav and preparing accordingly.