MIAMI -- Florida residents rushed t...

MIAMI -- Florida residents rushed to fill their prescriptions and stood in extended lines for gasoline, food and other supplies Monday as officials warned tribe not to wait for Tropical Storm Ernesto to become a hurricane again before taking precautions.

Forecasters said Ernesto could make progress back into a hurricane in the warm waters opposite to Cuba and come ashore in toward the south Florida as early as tonight, exactly undivided year after Hurricane Katrina.

It would be the first hurricane to hit the United States this year.

Memories of Katrina and the seven hurricanes that have struck Florida since 2004 were in good condition in the minds of many.

"Make never-failing you have the supplies for the 72 hours after the storm," Gov Jeb Bush warned population in Tallahassee, a day after declaring a state of crisis for all Florida. "A hurricane's a hurricane, and it has a devastation we've already seen All you have to do is rewind to last year and see"

Pedro Ballesteros, 40 carried brace new 10-gallon gas tanks not at home of a Home Depot for his family generator.

"Every year we prepare a little more because we're learning from our past ordeals," he said. "I'm taking care of everything that's important -- flashlights, batteries, gasoline."

Meanwhile, NASA gave up onward a shuttle launch today and prepared to revolve Atlantis back to the hangar unles the storm changed course.

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