Hurricane

[merle&louise]

Thanks Lew, that's nice to hear.

How are you feeling? Are you getting stronger?

I'll bet you are glad the surgery is behind you.

[GDeen]

We are very lucky Dean took a southern path and did not enter the central gulf...from this mornings NHC discussion on Dean:

Some historic notes are in order here. The 906 mb
central pressure is the ninth lowest on record for an Atlantic
Basin hurricane...and the third lowest at landfall behind the 1935
Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys and hurricane Gilbert of
1988 in Cancun Mexico. Dean is also the first category five
hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin since Andrew of
1992.