My eccentric rich neighbor last night said he was sick of all these storms so he was going back to his home in Oklahoma for a few weeks and is leaving today. Maybe he should have looked at the Rita forecast first.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...857.shtml?5day
In other news it looks like it isn't just earth that is getting warm and the poles on Mars are also shrinking.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20050920a.html "for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress."
Neptune is starting to look pretty good…