According to meteorologists, Tropical Storm Gustav will be on the cusp of becoming a hurricane, just as it enters the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. For residents and students in the Louisiana area, this news has understandably brought back painful memories of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged New Orleans only three years ago.

While Gustav obviously presents a more immediate threat, weather experts have already identified another tropical storm -- dubbed Hanna/Hannah -- forming near the Bahamas that may eventually head to the South too.

Reuters reports:

A new tropical depression formed over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and threatened to become the eighth storm of the already busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

 

"The depression will likely become a tropical storm later (Thursday) and could reach hurricane intensity within three days," the Miami-based hurricane center said.

 

The center's computer models predicted the depression would become an "intense hurricane."

"Depression" is right. There's nothing more depressing than hearing about storms that may or may not wash your home away.

Looks like residents in the South simply cannot catch a break, as Mother Nature seems intent on pounding the region with endless storms.

Students in the area are advised -- yet again – to transfer to schools away from the coastline.