As of now, the National Hurricane Center is projecting that Hurricane Issac will make landfall somewhere in South Florida on the evening of August 25th or the morning of August 26th. The Republican National Convention is scheduled to start on August 27th in Tampa. It is far too early to have any confidence in this projection, but it has the potential to disrupt air travel to Tampa, at a minimum. Dana Milbank sees it a sign of divine retribution. Obviously, like most of what Milbank writes, that’s stupid. But the possible disruption of the start to the convention is something to keep an eye on in the coming days.
