for more on the impact to the economy, let's bring in david streit. he join us from washington. 12 to 17. sounds like a like. can infrastructure handle it now? >> probably can. it depends on where the hurricanes end up going. i will say that normally, hurricane tracks are most common in the gulf of mexico in the month of september. next month is probably the time period where if we do get quite a few storms forming, there is greatest risk coming into the gulf of mexico. >> i want to talk about gulf of mexico, it is an important region for u.s. gas and oil. how impacted will they be? >> again, it depends just on exactly what track the storms take. one of the things that's working a bit against the intensity of some of these storms is that we don't have as much favorable conditions in the caribbean. which the national weather service had mentioned today. sometimes that can work against these storm systems from becoming strobing enough to cause problems for the platforms themselves. that doesn't mean there won't be evacuations that lead to a stoppage in