Gustav Still Pointed at New Orleans

This track can't make a lot of people in New Orleans, or for that matter Republicans headed to Minneapolis, too thrilled:


This track is nearly identical to the track of Hurricane Katrina, taking the storm just east of New Orleans and devastating coastal Mississippi with storm surge again. It's estimated that it will become a Category 3 storm when it hits the very warm water in the Gulf of Mexico. There's still plenty of room for movement (at five days out the potential error is usually around 300 miles). However, if it takes this track it will completely dominate the news and will pretty much knock the Republican Convention right off the front pages, with the exception of the multitude of reports linking this storm to Katrina, President Bush, Republicans, and the poor federal response.