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Cody Dawg · Sep 20, 2005, 06:21 AM

Track map of Rita shows it going through to Houston.

Woke up this morning here in Florida to very strong winds and some limbs down from the trees from the feeder bands coming through from the hurricane.

This one is going to be another bad one and will probably hit Houston from the looks of things.

Can you imagine those poor people evacuated out of Louisiana to Houston and now they have to evacuate again?

JMan09 · Sep 20, 2005, 12:08 PM

Yea I live in Beaumont, East of Houston, and if it comes our way then we are leaving. They've talked about evacuating our hospital which has over 300 people in it. But right now it is too early to decide where it's going.
That will be terrible having to evacuate the evacuees again.

IceEnclosure · Sep 20, 2005, 01:41 PM

Power went out last night for about an hour. Woke up today to driving rain and pretty heavy winds.

It's all slowing down now it seems around here.

RAILhead · Sep 20, 2005, 02:06 PM

We're heading to San Antonio Thursday, if it hits. Also, not to be a nit-pick, it's not going through Houston at all. It will be, possibly, hitting between Palacios and Galveston, which is somewhere near Freeport, Texas, which is just down the road from my home town.

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http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...406.shtml?5day

wdlove · Sep 20, 2005, 02:53 PM

Hi Cody,

You have been in my thoughts and prayers. Was concerned as to your situation. I feel better now that you have posted. Looking forward to a chat with my friend.

ghporter · Sep 20, 2005, 05:05 PM

As RAILhead says, the eye is forecast to pass over the Freeport area. Which is MUCH worse for Houston than if it passed straight over the city. The "upper right" quadrant of a hurricane tends to unleash the worst of the storm's power and cause the most destruction-just look at the Mississippi Gulf Coast for an example.

I live IN San Antonio, and I'm wondering if we're going to have serious weather problems from the storm. Oh, and with most of the people from New Orleans relocated from the numerous shelters here, I hope the shelters will be ready for new refugees as soon as they show up. It sounds like last year's multiple storm history is going to be played out on the Gulf Coast this year.

Cody Dawg · Sep 22, 2005, 12:23 AM

ghporter:

GET OUT.

Please just leave if you are ANYWHERE near that storm.

I am very worried about our MacNNer members in Texas.

Godspeed out of there.

IceEnclosure · Sep 22, 2005, 12:47 AM

For real. If this storm were on it's way ANYWHERE in South Florida, I'd be on my way north. and I'd make sure my family left as well, no exceptions.

Good luck on a hasty retreat to all of you anywhere near this storm's path.

---from NOAA.gov:

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 175 MPH...280 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. RITA IS A POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE ON
THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY ARE LIKELY
DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 70 MILES...110 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 185 MILES...295 KM.

UNTeMac · Sep 22, 2005, 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

ghporter:

GET OUT.

Please just leave if you are ANYWHERE near that storm.

I am very worried about our MacNNer members in Texas.

Godspeed out of there.

He's most likely fine in San Antonio. The latest forecasts have the storm travelling right up I-45 and being a depression by the time it reaches Dallas.

Cody Dawg · Sep 22, 2005, 07:35 AM

I just saw that the winds are 212mph in the wind bands.

Unbelievable.

OreoCookie · Sep 22, 2005, 07:39 AM

I heard it's the third-strongest Hurricane ever recorded. Imagine that one had hit Louisiana … :wow:

Cody Dawg · Sep 22, 2005, 07:54 AM

It's truly unbelievable. It's a disaster on the way.

You know what I heard this morning? There are actually people in Galveston, on the waterfront area, that are STAYING there.

I honestly think that Darwinism comes into play: They will be killed and once again the weak succumb and the smarter, stronger, people survive. Why would anyone stay? Apparently people knocked on their doors and said, "We have transportation to get you out. Please come." They refused.

That's surely an example of a Darwin Award.

Y3a · Sep 22, 2005, 07:54 AM

You notice that hurricanes have been slamming into the gulf and eroding the area for thousands of years, and you can even see the effects of erosion up the east coast too. Seems Cuba and associated islands have slightly deflected the storms to produce Floridas shape. Least thats what a guy at NASA was saying to us a few days ago.

VxWolfxV · Sep 22, 2005, 08:02 AM

Was listening to the radio this morning and they had the chief meteorologist of my local fox station on saying that there is a wind sheer (or something) forming that might weaken this hurricane to possibly category 3 before making landfall.

Of course, i only heard this on the radio and have no way to prove this. I have found nothing about this while searching the net...

Cody Dawg · Sep 22, 2005, 09:16 AM

Hopefully that's true. However, I'll believe it when I see it.

qnxde · Sep 22, 2005, 09:29 AM

hurricane rupaul?

King Bob On The Cob · Sep 22, 2005, 11:51 AM

According to the NOAA discussion page right now Rita is supposed to make landfall as a category 3 hurricane due to cooler waters that it is passing over.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...l/221455.shtml