Cat 3 Hurricane Norbert Threatens Mexico's PEMEX Oil Facilties

I've said this before: when we have to hope the weather plays along to make sure our troubles don't worsen, then we really are in trouble.

clipped from news.yahoo.com The hurricane was expected to turn Thursday toward the northeast on a path that could take it over the southern Baja peninsula and the Mexican mainland, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Norbert's maximum sustained winds were near 115 mph (185 kph) and were expected to strengthen further. In Mexico's Gulf coast, another storm system, Marco, weakened late Tuesday into a tropical depression after slamming into land as a tropical storm with near hurricane-force winds. Mexico's state oil company had a shutdown of some oil platforms in the gulf and evacuated some 3,000 people before Marco hit the coast about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Veracruz. Marco appeared to have largely spared water-logged southern Veracruz state, where rain-swollen rivers jumped their banks, leaving the towns of Minatitlan and Hidalgotitlan under 10 feet (3 meters) of water last week.