I mean, we DID get Harvey. My lay take here is that the flow of the Gulf Stream tends to bend the storms to the east as they approach the coast, so you get the

I mean, we DID get Harvey. My lay take here is that the flow of the Gulf Stream tends to bend the storms to the east as they approach the coast, so you get these curveball tracks that, unfortunately, disproportionately seem to smack Louisiana and Mississippi. Harvey came ashore further south, and so the eastward movement caught us (though that's a gross oversimplification of Harvey's actual mechanics).