Be sure and check out my gallery of pictures taken during a trip to Pensacola, Florida Christmastime last year.  The town was only starting its recovery several months after Hurricane Ivan had made a mess of the place.

Ivan Gallery

Blogging about hurricanes may seem off-topic, but they do affect college football.  Last year's Cal/Southern Miss game was postponed due to a hurricane, the Miami Hurricanes are the Miami Hurricanes, and UCLA's famous 20-game win streak was halted during its postponement match against Miami several years back.

This current storm, from some accounts, may do some serious damage that not only affects thousands of peoples' livelihoods, but it also may alter the early college football landscape.  The Tulane players may not care all too much about their season if they're having to help clean up their town after flooding and praying that family members don't count among the dead or injured.

Hopefully this is all nothing, but for now CFR is paying attention.  My thoughts and prayers go out to those who are in the threatened and affected areas.  The Miami area right now is cleaning up, but doesn't appear to have been so heavily damaged as to frustrate the beginning of the Hurricanes' season.  But people did lose their lives as Katrina swept through the southern tip of Florida and out towards the Gulf of Mexico.