, 17 October 2005 (UTC) 

 Wow, Wilma in the middle of October. This is going to be a bad day for somebody, the question is who? NHC now says that it will scrape the Yucatan Peninsula just short of a major hurricane and head up toward the Mississippi and Alabama coasts. The discussion said that confidence in this prediction is low and the track could shift to the right back towards Florida. All depends on that high over Rita's landfall area. No offense to Florida, but they can take a Category 1 or even a small Category 2 without much heartbreak, Honduras however would be in deep kimshe with even a Category 1. The Yucatan is even tougher that Florida (look how they weathered Emily) so not much worried about them. I'm mostly concerned about our precious gas off that coast. There's not much left to destroy in southeast Louisiana and the Mississippi, however another hurricane hit could make New Orleans uninhabitable for years. We've got a lot of places on the Gulf coast still licking their wounds (Punta Gorda, Gulf Shores/Pensacola, New Orleans, Port Arthur). 

  -  15:49