Hurricane Rita

[rjs246]

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.

[mussa]

pouree genious

[General_Failure]

Don't forget greasy pizza.

[mikey418]

Don't forget greasy pizza.

With Frank's Red Hot

[Susquehanna Birder]

i heart mother nature

I did mother nature.

[PhillyGirl]

Yeah, you do resemble Father Time.

[Eagles76ersFan]

"God ups the ante in his bid to rid the world of Shepard Smith."

[Geowhizzer]

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.

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.

[Rome]

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.

[Geowhizzer]

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.

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.

[PhillyGirl]

Fill you gas tanks now   

[MDS]

Fill you gas tanks now   

I don't need a car till december.

[rjs246]

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.

[Wingspan]

there's a lot of "ifs" and "worst cases" there...

[MadMarchHare]

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....