* Originally in: System Notic

As per the latest advisories from the National Hurricane
Center (www.nhc.noaa.gov), Hurricane Gustav is expected to
slam into the northern Gulf Coast on Labor Day...with its
remnants moving to near the Dallas/Fort Worth area Tuesday.

Unfortunately, this puts Arkansas in the "dirty" part of
the storm...the right front quadrant. Heavy, flooding rains...
high winds...and tornadic thunderstorms appear likely from
Tuesday through Friday across much of the region. Severe
weather watches and warnings for these are likely to be
issued this week. At this typing, hurricane warnings are
in effect along the Gulf Coast.

As a result, while it appears that the BBS will be up
through Monday, it might not come back up again until
sometime Saturday. If power or the high speed internet is
interrupted, that outage could be longer. I will poll my
hubs as soon as possible afterwards, to pick up back mail,
but it may end up being sometime Saturday, if not next
Sunday.

The amateur radio operators across the region, working
with emergency and disaster communications, have been ramping
up for a major hurricane landfall...the effects of which are
not likely to go away anytime soon.

After all, the climatological peak for the hurricane season
is Sept. 10, and this year is proving to be no exception.
Elsewhere in the tropics, Tropical Storm Hanna could end up
threatening the southeast United States...especially from
Florida to the Carolinas and beyond by later this week, or
next week.

My thoughts and prayers continue for all those that will
be affected by the storms.

Daryl Stout, N5VLZ, Sysop

*.. Climate is what we expect...weather is what we get.
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