OH SHIT!!! a Tropical storm is moving for the northern gulf coast

[bigdarryl]

With the government shut down this is going to be a problem http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

[malaise]

1. I saw this coming days ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023763432

[NightWatcher]

2. Yippie, might be a hurricane Sunday near Mobile, Al

Hang on guys.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Right on target for the redest of the red states.

Nice timing. Never fear! The Teabag party will come to the rescue. After they sober up of course.

[madville]

4. NHC and FEMA are still on the job

The websites might be down though for shutdown visibility but essential personnel are still there.

[malaise]

8. IKaren looks like a healthy storm

[madville]

10. I'm in the cone near the FL coast

Predicted TS by landfall, some rain and wind. Gonna go stock up some on extra water an gas though just in case.

[dembotoz]

5. storm is obamas fault

some risk here

a bad response from fema
shut down or no shut down
could really look bad

[darkangel218]

6. Wtf are you talking about??

How would a TS be Obama's fault?? And how would it "look bad"???? Obama is not the one who shut down the funding of the govt!!!

[displacedtexan]

9. What response?

That's one of the sad/funny things about shutting down the federal government: the people who answer the phones and emails are federal workers.

[Coyotl]

11. Yes, everything is Obama's fault.

Just a little tectonic humor:

[texanwitch]

7. Who needs the government.

You do in case of a tropical storm.

Just saw this on the weather channel.

[madville]

13. To be honest

A tropical storm typically doesn't draw much federal response, state and local authorities can usually handle everything.

FEMA, the NWS, and the NHC are all essential anyway and working during the shutdown.

[ananda]

12. All I heard on the news this morning..

.. was that it wasn't coming to Texas.

Bummer

[madville]

14. Y'all probably need the rain

We are pretty saturated here in the FL panhandle, looks like more on the way though.