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Humberto was the first hurricane to make landfall on the mainland of the United States in two years. It came ashore along the Texas-Louisiana line. "It was not a particularly powerful storm," commented NBC's Don Teague, "but what it lacked in strength it made up for with surprise." At 11pm last night it was a mild tropical storm; just after midnight it was full-fledged. Meteorologists told Teague that "no hurricane in recorded history has ever reached this intensity, this fast, so close to landfall." The good news, ABC's Mike von Fremd (subscription required) pointed out, is that the storm is heading northeast and "may soon be bringing much-needed rain to parched regions of the Deep South." The bad news, CBS' Mark Strassmann showed us, was the flattened Fighting Cardinals scoreboard on High Island. Humberto "ripped away what small Texas towns like this live for--high school football. You cannot have Friday Night Lights without the lights."
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