[GT2000]

Yeah john boy, but, this year has been quite different, things are changing with weather patterns, the tsunami at the end of last year, these cat 5s so close together in terms of time, and location, generally the cat 5s that are recorded, never touch land anywhere.

Of course you have to deal with these things when you live by the water..I live on the Atlantic Ocean, I've had to deal with these types of storms, well, hurricanes, but I've never been forced to evacuate because of them.

This storm is now up to 175mph, and in terms of measured pressure, it's at 897mb, they said Katrina got down to 902, and the lowest they've ever gotten in the past 50 years was 888mb. So they say this is the 3rd most powerful storm on record in the Atlantic basin. I just hope it drops to at least a cat 4 before making landfall.