A hurricane, a tropical storm, and many squalls..OMG

Our lives are becoming an enormous weather redundancy!
Updates: Hurricane Gustav is up to a category 4 with 150 MPH winds, nearly a cat five, a 5 is at 156 MPH winds, and this monster is still heading straight for the Big Easy!!

Fortunately, evacuations have already started and should be completed by Monday morning, and hopefully all lives will be saved this time, but there is no way to save the properties (remember that these are just things, not living), again. No positive way to know that the levies will hold, again. Hopefully the devastation will be not so horrendous. Gustav is predicted to hit that area on Tuesday around 2 P.M.

All day we have been receiving the squalls or offspring gusty winds and rain bands of Gustav even though it will miss us by several hundred miles out in the Gulf.

Hanna is still a tropical storm with 50 MPH winds, and has no idea where she is going, but we are still in her cone of uncertainty.

Sometimes you wonder why this is happening, all these natural disasters to us worldwide. Not just here.
Some will give religious beliefs as the reason; others global warming.
I think some of these disasters are just a horrific cleansing of our earth by nature herself, and that the media has been able to inform us about each incident just so much, much quicker than ever before!

What frightens me is that with all our scientists, and knowledge of climates, geology, meteorology, and all those other ologies or whatever is concerned with these things I'm really surprised that in this in our 21st Century we are still impotent in stopping or preventing these things!

Helpless is not something we humans ever like to feel, but these weather anomalies make us become that way, out of control. What can we do?
Take control of our own well being and safety, and that is about it.

This all remains harder to handle with all the information so close at hand, TMI, too much information; it actually creates high anxiety!
But keeping up with procedures that emergency agencies have discussed in your local area is one way to do something!
Be diligent and stay on target, and learn when to do what you should.
Having a plan usually helps.

Good night to all, be safe, and trust your own instincts with danger in the air.