By Saturday morning, [the national hurricane center was] locked onto southern Louisiana. It was a pretty darned good two-day forecast, and nobody trusts four- to-five-day forecasts anyway, whether it's a hurricane or not.

Wow, that is pretty impressive.

Some day, we'll get up and decide we're going to do it again.

Trading has been pretty steady so it looks as though it's been a good Boxing Day for retailers around New Zealand today.

It shouldn't be too severe yet. If we see these dry levels this summer, it could be disastrous.

We are in a weak El Nio that started a few months back and is gradually building. Typically what ends up happening is we get more 'cyclogenesis' --the formation of storms -- taking place in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico off of the Texas coast. Once these things form they tend to track towards the Northwest. It puts (Lufkin) in proximity for some rainfall.