Will Hurricane Isaac flood Tampa and cut the Republican convontion short?
With the biggest events of the convention just a few days away, a huge tropical storm is gathering off Tampa. If it reaches hurricane strength, it will be named Isaac. Are Republicans ready for a possible sign from some higher power that they are leading the country astray?
WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?
From http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/hurricane-rock-republican-convention/story?id=16981469
Could a Hurricane Rock the RNC in Tampa?
By AMY BINGHAM (@Amy_Bingham) August 13, 2012
"The Republican National Convention is scheduled during the peak of Florida hurricane season. And Tampa Bay is three kinds of vulnerable to the horrific winds, piercing rains and engulfing floods that come with an Atlantic hurricane. As a coastal city, Tampa is vulnerable to storms spinning west from the coast of Africa, coming north through the Caribbean or swirling east from the Gulf of Mexico.
... Since NOAA began keeping track in 1852, the Tampa area has weathered 27 hurricanes. Six of those have made landfall in the month of August, the month of this year's GOP convention. The area's most recent hurricane, Charley, blew through in 2004. The category 4 storm was originally projected to storm straight into Tampa, but made a last-minute change of direction, hitting about 130 miles south. It brought 150 mph winds and caused $15 billion in damages.
The Republican National Convention, Secret Service and federal, state and local authorities have been planning for a 'multitude' of hurricane scenarios for 'well over a year,' said Bryan Koon, Florida's emergency management director.... While the RNC would not divulge much information about contingency plans, Koon said the planning groups have discussed cutting the convention short or 'whatever would be necessary' to keep people safe 'given the circumstances of that particular storm.'...
So how likely is it that Mother Nature's fury with collide with Republican's political frenzy? 'The odds of getting a hurricane at any one place at any one time are not that great,' (Dennis) Feltgen, (spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami) said. 'Life doesn't stop because you're hurricane prone. You just prepared for it.'"
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If the gop convention had been scheduled for the following week ... We might be talking about the "unexpected convention guest, Hurricane Jethro (or maybe, Hurricane Jeb)."
