Hurricane Dennis

Tourists throughout the Florida Keys were ordered to evacuate, as were all mobile home residents — and all southernmost residents of the island chain. A hurricane warning was issued for the lower Keys.
Lines of cars were seen streaming out of the island chain Thursday. Airlines reported that nearly all flights out of Key West were full, and Greyhound added buses to help get residents out of the area.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8487520/page/3/

I have friends who were heading for the Florida Keys today. I can't say that I'm disappointed that the Keys were evacuated. They turned around and went to Fort Lauderdale. From the news reports, it looks like Hurricane Dennis is going to be pretty powerful; a category 4 hurricane.

It's good that the government officials learned from last year's hurricane season and have started appropriate evacuation procedures. It's interesting that among all the people they're evacuating, "There were no immediate plans to evacuate prisoners or troops from the U.S. detention center's Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, on Cuba's extreme southeast end, Gen. Jay Hood said in an interview." So basically, the prisoners don't really matter... oh well.