Wise words, Ben.

With all the suprises in storms and energy issues we've seen this year, a wait-and-see attitude (even if with crossed fingers) is probably best.

I won't ignore it, but after living through the hysteria before, during, and after Rita (we are an evacuation destination, and a few days before the storm they predicted the eye would pass thirty miles west of our town, in the end it didn't even rain here), I've decided to wait until there is much more data to get worked up.  

I can spend lots of time and energy speculating, naturally, and it's very tempting for me to play "what if" games, so I'm choosing to sit on my typing fingers for a bit and see what plays out.