 By KELLY P. KISSEL | Metro editor Hurricane Ian is in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now forecasters say it will come ashore near Tampa, but anything this close bears watching. While we have just had a cold front roll through, and the front will likely interact with Ian, there's no 100 percent sure thing in forecasting. Here's our latest.
"We have met the enemy, and he is us." It turns out that Pogo's quote could have applied to traffic on the Mississippi River bridge that carries I-10 in and out of Baton Rouge. A study found that the volume problem on the bridge isn't big trucks and cross-country travelers, but rather it's local drivers. The Pogo quote, btw, is a spoof of a quote by Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry from the War of 1812. He said, after a battle on Lake Erie, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours." The Internet tells me Perry also uttered "Don't give up the ship" the same day. One of the advisers on the bridge study said bluntly: "We use I-10 as a surface street."
LSU has two major tasks over the next few weeks: It has six SEC games in a row, including contests against Tennessee, Ole Miss and Alabama, and it must play a late-morning game against the Volunteers on Oct. 8. Scott Rabalais writes about the upcoming stretch, and quotes the late Beano Cook: "Dracula and LSU football are at their best after the sun goes down." | 
