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Ugh, I should pay attention to the weather more. Hurricane Rits is expected to hit Texas, south of Houston(where I live), in a few days. I've lived through a few hurricanes and tornados but I always dread this crap.
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Ugh, I should pay attention to the weather more. Hurricane Rits is expected to hit Texas, south of Houston(where I live), in a few days. I've lived through a few hurricanes and tornados but I always dread this crap. |
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Every area usually affected by hurricanes has been hit this year except north florida. If another one pops up, I'm sacrficing chickens.
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I hope we (south Georgia/north Florida) get hit with a category one sometime soon. We need some effing rain, damnit.
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Tugor
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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Rita is now definitely category 4 and may be 5 soon too.
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Yeah, seriously, if you're remotely near the coast, get the hell out of dodge.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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I am from Houston and still have family there, so I've been keeping a close watch myself.
From Accuweather.com:
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As of 8:00 PM EDT Wednesday, Rita has become the third strongest
hurricane ever recorded at 898 millibars or 26.52 inches. Rita is still a category 5 hurricane with is packing sustained winds of 165 mph with gusts to 185 mph. This is the season's second catastrophic hurricane. As of 8:00 PM EDT, Rita was centered near 24.4 north and 87 west. This places Rita 680 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi, or 580 miles east southeast of Galveston Texas. The minimum central pressure has fallen to an incredible 898 millibars (26.52 inches of mercury). Rita was moving to the west at 13 mph. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles from the center of circulation. Given that Rita will continue to intensify the wind field will probably expand further over the next 24 hours.
Hurricane watches are now in effect from Port Mansfield, Texas to Cameron, Louisiana and tropical storm watches are in effect from Cameron to Grand Isle, Louisiana and from Port Mansfield to Brownsville, Texas. The government of Mexico has issued a tropical storm watch from Rio San Fernando northward.
Rita will continue to track westward through the southeastern Gulf of Mexico Wednesday evening and night with further strengthening expected as it crosses the same warm waters that helped Katrina strengthen into a Category 5 hurricane. So, it is no surprise that this hurricane has become a catastrophic hurricane.
Rita will generally track to the west as an upper-level high pressure ridge over Texas expands eastward across the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The track that Rita takes will depend on how this high moves, weakens and strengthens. We currently expect this upper ridge of high pressure to remain strong and steer Rita on a general westerly course across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico through Wednesday night into Thursday. Then we expect the high to either split or move eastward causing Rita to move west-northwest early Friday then more northwestward Friday night and Saturday. We are estimating landfall between Galveston and Corpus Christi sometime between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday. Ocean water analysis shows some cooler water in place about 300 miles off the Texas coast, then warmer water again right near the Texas coast in our primary projected landfall area, so the intensity forecast at landfall will be a real challenge. After Rita makes landfall, it will head northwest between Austin and Houston then track between Dallas and Tyler Sunday. We expect hurricane force winds to spread over a large area of eastern Texas after landfall. In fact, high-rise buildings in the Houston area could experience wind gusts to near 100 mph. This could cause some windows to shatter. In addition to possible damaging hurricane-force winds, tornadoes might be spawned by the cyclonic rotation from Rita mainly east and northeast of the center of circulation. |
Please, anyone who lives in the danger zone, get out. Take a weekend trip somewhere else, even if it is only a couple of hours inland.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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I'm probably gonna go stay with my Aunt in Dallas. It might still get bad there but nowhere near as bad as Houston will be hit.
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Good thing we just moved to Maryland, where the only naturally occurring disaster is boredom.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:13 am Post subject: |
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And updated info from Accuweather. 215 MPH gusts!!!
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Rita is an historic Category 5 hurricane now packing sustained winds
of 175 mph with gusts to near a mind boggling 215 mph. This is the season's second catastrophic hurricane. As of 2:00 a.m. EDT, Rita was centered near 24.8 north and 87.6 west. This places Rita 645 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi, or 540 miles east-southeast of Galveston, Texas. The minimum central pressure was reported by hurricane hunter aircraft at 898 millibars (26.52 inches of mercury). This is the 3rd most intense Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded. Rita was moving to the west-northwest at 9 mph. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles from the center of circulation. Given that Rita will continue to intensify the wind field will probably expand further over the next 24 hours. |
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So I'm sitting here before work checking weather.com about Rita and all I have to say is:
I sincerely hope for all of you in Texas (and I know there are several) that Rita weakens considerably. Go north while you can and hope (we will all be hoping with you) that your properties are ok once it passes.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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So I'm sitting here before work checking weather.com about Rita and all I have to say is:
I sincerely hope for all of you in Texas (and I know there are several) that Rita weakens considerably. Go north while you can and hope (we will all be hoping with you) that your properties are ok once it passes. |
I have a contact in Dallas for work and I tried to call today to get some research from her end in and got an operator saying that phonelines are temporarily disconnected. It might just be some office lines though.
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Tugor
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There's no escape from Houston. Traffic is gridlocked for over 200 miles. I drove down 45 for 6 hours only to make it 2 miles. They opened up the southern side of 45 for everyone to go north and it's still gridlocked. Back roads have been closed, they want everyone on 45.
Good news is the people below me have barricaded their apartment up like they're expecting a nuclear strike and they said I could stay down there with them and ride it out.
So hopefully I'll be ok and all that.
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I sure hope so.
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| stay safe tugor thoughts be with you |
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