I'm on the Gulf Coast, so you'll forgive me

I'm on the Gulf Coast so I hope you'll forgive me for saying, "Oh, my God."

"You bet I'm worried about next year, and several years after that," Max Mayfield, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, told a news conference.

"We have six months to prepare for the 2006 hurricane season. It's reality. We've got to deal with that."