The landfall estimate has been slowly shifting westward for days. Current tracks show a pronounced western hook immediately after landfall. My guess (and I am not a meteorologist!) is that it will finally hit land somewhere along the east Texas coast.

Methinks a media narrative has taken hold where Gustav must be the revisitation of Katrina as a reminder to/chastising of those Evil Republicans ™ who were in charge that day (instead of various local, state and Federal governments, some of which were Democrats or bureaucrats. It’s one of those convenient narratives that lets the media do it the easy way and mine the depths of “oh, those poor people.”