They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time to develop.

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We always thought it could be a dangerous hurricane, ... is the typical track for October.

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Normally, this value would correspond to a system of hurricane strength.

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This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.

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Let's put it this way, ... I wish it could have happened in the middle of the ocean.

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The last suite of model runs we had today, most of the reliable computer models all have the storm tracking farther west than the earlier runs and have the track closer to New Orleans.

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We were monitoring that system for days and days and days.

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There must be some favorable environment, but we're not able to see what it is.

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I hope we're wrong and (Zeta) will die sooner.

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