That Giant Sucking Sound

First Rita, then Humberto-- two hurricanes bearing down on Galveston and Houston that both turned hard to the northeast and hit around the Texas/Louisiana line. Why?

I thought about it for all of about ten seconds when I came up with a decidedly un-scientific answer:

It's the casinos, stupid.

Casinos, by design, are there to suck vast amounts of cash from the pockets of their hapless patrons. They are very, very good at this, to the point that I'm just going to start handing $20 bills to random casino employees. That would accomplish the same thing as playing the slots and would make more people happy.

The problem is, these cash-sucking vaccuums also seem to affect large weather formations, such as hurricanes. As these storms near the Texas coast, they can't break free from the bankruptcy-inducing vortex and are sucked right into Louisiana.

Karma's a b!t(&, isn't it...