Steve - I definitely agree. Five canes isn't a longshot by any means. We've already had a couple. Three or four are more likely of course, but you never know. Seems like every year brings something new and historic these days -- whether it's wrong-way Lenny & Floyd in 1999; or the extra-long season, Fabian/Isabel, and April Ana in 2003; or Alex & Charley in 2004. That doesn't even include the S. Atlantic storm...

The best track info I have for Bret says it weakened to a cat 3 just before landfall.

Re: FSU GRAD -- We've got 10 and a half days at least before the FSU-UM football game would be affected - and to tell the truth, if the storm hits South Florida, I think it'll be closer to 8 days away instead of 10. It'll take longer if it recurves, less time if it heads straight towards Florida. There are more important things to worry about regarding that game for FSU!

BTW, a note to the mods/site admins: the advisory info for Frances on the side of the page is coming up with an east longitude, at least on my end. Probably a problem in the NHC's data somewhere that is causing something to hiccup or something and not really important, but just something I noticed.