Wake up WEST Florida! As we found from Charley, hurricanes can change course suddenly and the smallest shift can change your life. Tampa dodged a HUGE bullet with Charley. Unpopulated Charlotte County took it for us.

Don't trust predicted tracks!!

Can WEST Florida or the Gulf Coast feel secure since this will hit EAST of us? No way!! Please look at the 1998 Hurricane Georges to see its nearly identical Carribean track. It NEVER turned north as predicted but passed under Florida, over the Keys and then turned north right up the west coast. Georges barely missed Tampa and went north to wreck the Gulf Coast.

But don't forget, Tampa Bay Cat Sailors will be racing the Union Regatta on Sunday at Dunedin, FL. Big air!!