Hurricane Rita

[lamont]

Great ... we're supposed to be flying into Houston early Saturday morning on our way to Bonaire.

can you reschedule for sometime on friday and take an extra day off?

 

[DandyDon]

Dan,
the san Bernard river is a little closer but yes I am getting out of town. I have already pretty much wrote my house off if the storm is as big as predicted.

I hope that I am wrong and will be writing yall Monday morning.

Hope your house does okay; already got duct tape and plyboard up? The important thing is to ensure your butt is okay. Let me know if you'll be in Lubbock this weekend, I might come down. :shades:

 

[MichaelBaranows]

If I make it to Lubbock I will be sure to post.

 

[dlndavid]

Rita is now Cat 5 and is looking just as mean as Katrina, but with a few more days at sea over the warm waters of the gulf it could be the biggest we've seen yet.

 

[lamont]

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Tcuat3
Hurricane Rita Tropical Cyclone Update
Nws Tpc/national Hurricane Center Miami Fl
255 Pm Cdt Wed Sep 21 2005

Data From Reconnaissance Aircraft Indicate That Rita Has Reached
Category Five Intensity With Estimated Maximum Sustained Surface
Winds Of 165 Mph. This Will Be Reflected In The 4 Pm Cdt Advisory.

Forecaster Avila

$$

 

[Scuba65]

Well, good luck to all that live in that area of the hurricane. god be with you. keep us posted.

 

[DandyDon]

If I make it to Lubbock I will be sure to post.

My Houston friend tells me that the freeways are already jammed. Hope you're on the road soon, or now would be nice...

Glad to see she's veering away from giant Houston some, but you folks down the coast be careful...

 

[blueeyes_austin]

I'm glad I got to see the Flower Gardens/Stateson Bank....

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WTNT63 KNHC 212146
TCUAT3
HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
545 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005

...RITA BECOMES THE FIFTH MOST INTENSE HURRICANE ON RECORD...

DROPSONDE DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE
AIRCRAFT AT 416 PM CDT...2116Z...INDICATED THE CENTRAL PRESSURE HAS
FALLEN TO 904 MB...OR 26.69 INCHES. THIS MAKES RITA THE FIFTH MOST
INTENSE HURRICANE IN TERMS OF PRESSURE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN.

RITA CURRENTLY RANKS BEHIND HURRICANE GILBERT IN 1988 WITH 888
MB...THE 1935 LABOR DAY HURRICANE WITH 892 MB...HURRICANE ALLEN IN
1980 WITH 899 MB...AND HURRICANE KATRINA LAST MONTH WITH 902 MB.

FORECASTER STEWART

 

[H2Andy]

ok, i hate to be a pesimist (again), and i was (thankfully) wrong after
Katrina, but...

if Rita messes up the oil industry along Texas' gulf coast, you could look at
some shortages of gasoline (that's about 20% of the national refining
output) real soon

the Feds already released reserves after Katrina... not sure if they will be able
to do it again in case of damage...

anyway... we dodged the bullet with Katrina... let's see if we get lucky again

 

[jonix]

good luck to those in the path of hurricane rita. our prayers are with you.