Friday marks the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and it looks like the Gulf Coast is about to get smacked again. This is the current projection for Tropical Storm Gustav:

As you can see, it looks like it’ll make landfall early next week. Reports say New Orleans can’t withstand a Category 2 storm in their current condition, and this already projects as a cat 3. It could also just sit in the gulf for another day or two and ramp up to cat 4 or 5. Governor Jindal in Louisiana is looking at starting evacuations as early as Friday.

If it makes landfall, and it’s gonna, but if it hits landfall hard enough to again breech the levee’s, we’re going to have to have a serious discussion about rebuilding one of the oldest and most flavorful cities in this country.