yeah and this cold front also prevented what should have been a western or central gulf coast storm (climatologically speaking), and shunted it off towards the unfortunate people of SW florida... Now the question of the day is., or perhaps the coming week will be; will Earl get the same treatment??? If it makes it to the GOM, will we have the luxury of protection of another front... statistically speaking, I think not... which would not bode well for the central or western GOM... if it does make it to the GOM... still to early to call, but the models did pretty dang good with Charley overall.... maybe they can get two in a row...