In the past decade, extreme weather deaths outnumbered war casualties - Tina Dupuy

Safe to say, nothing is so bad that a hurricane can't make it worse. Take an existing problem, toss it around in the wind and smack it with flying debris -- it's certainly not going to improve. Shoddy construction is made worse, communication concerns -- made worse. A struggling economy -- made worse. Disastrous Bush presidency -- made worse. And now, the wonders of deregulation -- the BP Oil Spill -- the worst environmental disaster in the history of the U.S., found itself in the pathway of early riser Alex, the first official hurricane of this season.

Alex shut down drilling and clean-up efforts for a few days until it made landfall in Monterrey, Mexico, missing the marshes of Louisiana. Rain instead has plagued the region. The BP Oil Spill is already a current-carried glob of doom. It's a mass of toxic sludge submerged in the Northern Hemisphere's hotbed of hurricanes. As usual, we are at the mercy of the winds. We are the subjects of the impending season of storms that rip through our Gulf Coast every year.