A day or two ago Jeff Masters pointed out that the name Tomas may well be retired due to the destruction in St. Lucia, which took the full force of Tomas’s northern eyewall. At the time Tomas was near the Cat 1/Cat 2 border in strength. So we didn’t waste a name, even if the storm dissipates. OTOH, I really wouldn’t want to be in Haiti (even more so than usual) after tomorrow morning. Some of the models predict that Tomas (or the remnants thereof) will stall out just north of Haiti, and remember that in Haiti flooding is the main danger.