Last year, I said this is going to be a season to tell our grandchildren about, but this one was worse.

This is one to tell the grandchildren about. I've been here 32 years at the National Hurricane Center, and we've never had this much activity near land ever before.

What happened with Ivan was almost unheard of.

Do you think we're going to be able to tell if it's going to clip the Chesapeake Bay or crash into Cape Cod? Nobody's going to be able to tell you where it's going to hit. Nobody.

Even a Category 2 or a Category 1 hurricane hitting the Florida Keys or the southwest coast of Florida can have big consequences there.

It's going to be a long couple of days here for the Yucatan Peninsula.