QuoteHurricane Rita now a Category 2 hurricane with top sustained winds of 100 mph, according to National Hurricane Center.
The path of this stands like this right now..but like Katrina, it could turn and head dead on to the Gulf coast:
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/weather/0509/path.td.18/rita.9.20.11a.gif)
QuoteWith Rita projected to strengthen to a Category 3 storm as it moves into the Gulf, concerns went beyond the Sunshine State.
In Galveston, Texas, a city flattened by a hurricane in 1900, officials called Tuesday for a voluntary evacuation, according to The Associated Press. (Full story)
And in New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin postponed a planned return of residents to the city and ordered those who had already returned to leave, because of the threat posed by Rita.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco urged residents of southwestern Louisiana to be ready to evacuate on short notice. And because Rita could hit Texas, which already has taken in tens of thousands of Louisiana residents after Katrina, she urged them to go north instead of west. (Full story)
The latest five-day forecast from the National Hurricane Center has the storm making landfall near Galveston on late Friday or early Saturday. However, because of the erratic nature of hurricane movements, forecasters issued a "cone of probability" which showed the potential path of the storm could vary from northern Mexico to southeast Louisiana.
I sure hope this thing steers clear of the Katrina hit areas. I can't even imagine a Cat 3 hitting that area right now.
Oh pshaw. I'm rooting for Rita to wrap up the job Katrina almost finished and just wash New Orleans off the face of the earth for good.
Mother Nature is a jerk.
Yeah, but she's hot.
Eh, way too old for my taste. Talks way too much too.
Why can't these things hit California? But only during major Earthquakes. The we could all go swimming down in Arizona Bay.....
i heart mother nature
FYI: Houston/etc is also the "gulf coast".
I can't wait for them to have to evacuate the evacuees. Ironies galore!
i nominate rjs to come up with the evacuation plan for the evacuees.
{arnold voice}build giant meat grinder...lead them into smelly tunnel of crunchy death(arnold voice}
No more GWAR shows for mussa.
ewww GWAR ::)
We're about 400 miles north of Key West and we just got slammed with a brief outer-outer rain band from Rita.
It was sunny and then all of a sudden - bam - the ish came off the ocean and slammed us for about 15 minutes. Now it's calm again.
:P
Quote from: rjs246 on September 20, 2005, 01:58:50 PM
Eh, way too old for my taste. Talks way too much too.
maybe Rome would take her on a date.
Quote from: T_Section224 on September 20, 2005, 02:28:48 PM
i nominate rjs to come up with the evacuation plan for the evacuees.
I say we airlift them to the Whitehouse lawn, feed them ex-lax, give them as much beer as they want, run like hell and wait for the hilarity to ensue.
pouree genious
Don't forget greasy pizza.
Yeah, you do resemble Father Time.
;)
Quote from: PhillyGirl on September 20, 2005, 01:40:04 PM
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"God ups the ante in his bid to rid the world of Shepard Smith."
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on September 20, 2005, 02:51:03 PM
We're about 400 miles north of Key West and we just got slammed with a brief outer-outer rain band from Rita.
It was sunny and then all of a sudden - bam - the ish came off the ocean and slammed us for about 15 minutes. Now it's calm again.
:P
We're about 90 miles due north of Key West. We had one good squall this morning, and another about 1pm. Other than that, it's just been cloudy and breezy.
Where it looks like it's heading, NO will be on the east side of the storm, where most of the storm convection is. Depending on where it actually hits, they could still get a lot of rain, even if it's not a direct hit.
My wife's office is about five miles south of mine and she called me this afternoon to let me know that the weather was horrendous down by her. Just whipping winds, driving rain, really bad... meanwhile, it was sunny as could be without a breath of wind at my office when she called.
Welcome to Florida.
:-D
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on September 20, 2005, 07:46:57 PM
My wife's office is about five miles south of mine and she called me this afternoon to let me know that the weather was horrendous down by her. Just whipping winds, driving rain, really bad... meanwhile, it was sunny as could be without a breath of wind at my office when she called.
Welcome to Florida.
:-D
Ain't that the truth? Heck, I can usually tell we're getting close to the end of the school day. Torrential rains at 3:45.
Fill you gas tanks now ::) (http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/21/news/economy/rita_threat/index.htm)
Quote from: PhillyGirl on September 21, 2005, 03:30:12 PM
Fill you gas tanks now ::) (http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/21/news/economy/rita_threat/index.htm)
:-D I don't need a car till december.
I wish these damned storms would hit Boston and wipe it off the map. That way I would be force to 'evacuate' and never come back. Stupid city.
there's a lot of "ifs" and "worst cases" there...
This storm will be ugly. Again. Just like Katrina.
I remember a few years back, Houston flooded bad after a TS (Allison, I think). Lost hundred or research years in research animals when the vivarium went under water. This could be a lot worse....
Good Lord...its just been upgraded to a Category 5.
if it hasnt changed direction, getting this strong now is kinda a good thing...it's rare for a storm to sustain a category 5 strength.
it will probably hit land a high 3 or low 4.
still thats nothing to take lightly. but unless it drops to a 4 then comes back up to a 5 (rare) then this is a better than worse case scenerio
I'm keeping an eye on it...Waco is a good distance from Galveston...bout 2 1/2-3 hours. But someone really has it in for those New Orleans folk. They are being chased out of Texas.
Nothing like being an evacuated evacuee.
global warming is the cause. blame Bush. thanks
Quote from: MURP on September 21, 2005, 05:11:22 PM
global warming is the cause. blame Bush. thanks
All we need to do is bring some honkin' big icebergs into the gulf, and let them melt and cool the waters. Then turn on the big-ass fans and blow those sumbitches neutral.
Thank you. My genius is never-ending.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on September 21, 2005, 05:08:43 PM
Nothing like being an evacuated evacuee.
Native Americans are laughing their asses off at this. "Yeah, we've heard that one before. Let's see how you fargers like it for a change!"
Hahaha...i worked the front desk at the station today. I had an old senile come in with an illustration and narrative about how to stop the Hurricane. He wanted the phone number to the DoD to submit his stuff. He wants the Prez to drop 200-300 bombs in the Hurrcane to disrupt the rotationg and force it to dissipate. I tried not to laugh at the poor old guy, but it was tough. He even asked me three times if he sounded crazy. Poor old dude!
Quote from: The Waco Kid on September 21, 2005, 08:31:45 PM
He wants the Prez to drop 200-300 bombs
Sounds like a plan Dubya would luv.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on September 21, 2005, 03:30:12 PM
Fill you gas tanks now ::) (http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/21/news/economy/rita_threat/index.htm)
Phreak...already posted. :P
Crap...look at the size of it....
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/134243main_Rita_aqua_20050921_516.jpg)
Galveston might get wiped out again. I don't think they have an accurate idea of where this one is going to land yet but they're clearing people out of Houston area.
Quote from: TexasEagle on September 22, 2005, 10:29:02 AM
Galveston might get wiped out again. I don't think they have an accurate idea of where this one is going to land yet but they're clearing people out of Houston area.
Another problem is that if New Orleans even gets like 3-4 inches of rain, it will break the levees again. And on its current path, 3-4 inches is about what NO will get.
Yeah, it just turned more to the north. Now it's headed directly at Houston. Here comes all the Houston trash...straight up I-45.
Good God...i just saw lines that were 10 deep at the gas pumps. It's insane here!!
There's all kinds of people at the pumps today. Of course this has nothing to do with price increases.
I have family in the Houston area who left on Wednesday to Dallas. They're right by Bay City, TX and it doesnt look good for that entire area. One place im acutally worried about it this place called
Moody Gardens (http://www.moodygardens.com) in Galveston. Its a really cool place but its a Glass Pyramid :-\
Did you see about the bus that blew up that was evacuating people (elderly) from Houston? Also, the news this morning was saying there was 100 MILE traffic jams with people trying to get out of Houston.
Ha. Homeland Security seems to have done a lot of great planning since they got borned.
Also, Houston is second only to L.A. in Suck.
Quote from: TexasEagle on September 23, 2005, 01:12:09 PM
Did you see about the bus that blew up that was evacuating people (elderly) from Houston? Also, the news this morning was saying there was 100 MILE traffic jams with people trying to get out of Houston.
I've got a friend down there, she said it took her realatives 24 hours to drive a distance that normally takes 3 hours. I assume there wasn't a large field they could cut through somewhere along the way.
Quote from: General_Failure on September 23, 2005, 01:38:19 PMI assume there wasn't a large field they could cut through somewhere along the way.
All those SUVs just parked on the highway. Funny. Lousy, but funny.
Quote from: Wingspan on September 21, 2005, 04:37:35 PM
if it hasnt changed direction, getting this strong now is kinda a good thing...it's rare for a storm to sustain a category 5 strength.
it will probably hit land a high 3 or low 4.
still thats nothing to take lightly. but unless it drops to a 4 then comes back up to a 5 (rare) then this is a better than worse case scenerio
downgraded again to a 3 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050923/ts_nm/rita_position_dc)
Boy 'o boy are people gonna be pissed when they come home and their houses are fine. "We evacuated for THIS?!?"
Dammit. I want destruction, bitches!
Dammit! I wanted to see more death and destruction too. Farg Rita...that damn dirty whore.
Who says the NOAA guys don't have a sense of humor?
(http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT18/refresh/AL1805S_sm2+gif/145649P_sm.gif)
Guys, its 125 mph winds. Not exactly what you call a nice breeze.
Pshaw. I've driven both four and two wheeled contraptions faster than that.
Did you drive them into the back of a parked truck that was carrying fence posts?
Quote from: PhillyGirl on September 23, 2005, 04:52:13 PM
Guys, its 125 mph winds. Not exactly what you call a nice breeze.
Sounds like a day in the park
It was pretty cool seeing the clouds move in tonight right at sunset. The sky was lit up with about 10 different colors. And then it just got pitch black. Or maybe that was just because it got dark out. I don't know.
Well, 1615 central time and we've gotten absofrigginlutely nothing. No rain...not a whole lot of wind. A whole lot of smoke blown by our meteorologists. How those morons get paid for their jobs is beyond me.
Better they get it wrong that way, kid. :-\
Definitely! But, now the wind has really picked up and the clouds have gotten significantly darker and appear far more threatening. I guess we'll see some rain after all.
Quote from: The Waco Kid on September 24, 2005, 05:16:43 PM
Well, 1615 central time and we've gotten absofrigginlutely nothing. No rain...not a whole lot of wind. A whole lot of smoke blown by our meteorologists. How those morons get paid for their jobs is beyond me.
1. Count your blessings. Looks like the hurricane turned earlier than expected, and you won't get quite as much as you could have.
2. From the looks of the charts, you'll have more than your share of rain coming.
I was hoping the Waco Kid would be flooded by now.
Looks like i beat your drop dead wish. Now it's my turn. >:D