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Here comes Rita

homerjward said:
they've been predicting 50mph winds and flooding here, 150 miles inland :eek: postponing/cancelling events and everything. this storm is really looking bad--i hope any members here along the coast are all right...
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I heard we could expect around 70 mph! (at least that was the buzz around the office today.) Everyone at work is talking about it, we are being very unproductive. My co-worker's father lives in Corpus and does not want to evacuate. I heard him pleading with his dad, but his dad said he would take it under advisement. Father talk for ****. I certainly hopes he does leave, it is going to be a terrible hurricane.
 
Cooknn said:
Daveway how did you fare with Katrina - are you back home yet?
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I had actually left a the last minute. I drove about 20miles out of Baton Rouge only to stay a night. I came back the same morninf katrina was still passing, so I was amoung the first to come back to my area.
There's a lot of details about the trip home that you won't hear on the news.
In my case I had driven 70 miles Monday morning to come home and be blocked from my house only 3 miles away. The state police had blocked all roads going into our parish and was letting people out but not back in that morning. Eventually there was such a pileup that there was close to 300 vehicles cramed in a 1sq. mile area and riots were starting to begin with the police. There were arrests. After about an 2 hours my parish police came and let us in with ID only. Long morning because we were coming home and the hurricane had passed only 5 hours before and there were powerlines and trees down all over. Unsafe, I know.

My house is fine. We lost a good bit of the little siding we have, our chimney is gone, and we lost about a quarter of the shingles on our roof. Because we didn't have shingles, we filled up three large ice chests full of water coming from our bedroom ceilings when a thunderstorm that dumped 7inches in one hourscame through just a day after the hurricane.

The reason we came home so early is because my street was the only street in our whole parish (county) that didn't loose power.
 
Just checked the NFL schedule... the Saints are playing away this weekend, in Minnesota, so they won't be affected by bad weather in San Antonio.

All of you in the storm's path: I wish you the best of luck. I don't think the storm's going to just evaporate before it reaches land.
 
Looks like we are screwed here, and there isn't a hotel in the state with a vacancy. Gonna have to head up to Dallas and stay with some friends...
 
Whyren said:
I mean, this is just getting insane. If this keeps up, we'll be in the Greek letter storms soon.
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I thought I heard Jim Cantori of the Weather Channel say yesterday that the temperatures at the top of this storm are like -80°. That combined with the Gulf at about +90° and you've got yourself one freaking huge engine created by mother nature. Anybody see The Day After Tomorrow?
 
nospleen said:
I heard we could expect around 70 mph! (at least that was the buzz around the office today.) Everyone at work is talking about it, we are being very unproductive. My co-worker's father lives in Corpus and does not want to evacuate. I heard him pleading with his dad, but his dad said he would take it under advisement. Father talk for ****. I certainly hopes he does leave, it is going to be a terrible hurricane.
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my parents are supposed to be heading to San Antonio to visit friends on Saturday, what's the travel news like down there? Probably not likely they'll get there, though I mean SA is inland, but still from what you guys said, it still sounds like a bad storm (although we get winds of over 100-130km/h pretty often up here and all our homes are fine)
 
mkubal said:
Or we'll probably just rebuild them as they were before, and below sea level, so this can happen again and again and again.
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Here's an idea: Lets not build there at all.


Good luck with all of this. I don't know anything outside what was said in this thread, but it sounds really bad. Hopefully it won't directly hit a major city dead-on.
 
Cooknn said:
Here is some footage from Hurricane Charley last year just 25 miles away from where I live. (Windows Media Player required). This footage is only of a Cat 4. Imagine what a Cat 5 would do :(
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To put it in some perspective, the winds of Rita are on the level of a fairly strong F3 tornado...just several hundred miles wide. Of course, there's nothing stopping Rita from generating several F3 or stronger tornadoes herself.

If hurricanes keep increasing in intensity like this, they may have to create a Category 6 seeing as how both Katrina and Rita are approaching that theoretical level (180 mph sustained winds, if you keep with the 25mph bracket of other Saffir-Simpson categories).

Rita's less than 10mb of pressure away from being the most powerful Atlantic tropical cyclone on record.
 
Rita (water vapor) vs. Gilbert (satellite, currently the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record)
 

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Daveway said:
I can't see our government having enough money to fund two of the most intense major hurricane disasters within weeks of each other.
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They don't have money to fund a lot of things - that doesn't keep them from doing so anyway.
 
I've been through so many Monsters like this coming from the islands. we always batted up the houses and wait it out....not anymore, things have change now we run for the hills.

Prayers goes out to all NO & Texas people.
lets cross our fingers and ask mother nature give us a break for the year.

God Bless.
 
Verto said:
Texas is gonna kick Rita's ass. We don't play around like Louisiana.
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AHHAHAH! I LOVE IT!!!

Like a Fark headline said a while ago:
Galveston residents warned not to yell "don't mess with Texas" at hurricane; told to evacuate
or something like that.
:)
 
katie ta achoo said:
AHHAHAH! I LOVE IT!!!

Like a Fark headline said a while ago:
Galveston residents warned not to yell "don't mess with Texas" at hurricane; told to evacuate
or something like that.
:)
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yikes... are you still in houston katie? im going to pull a lieutenant dan (from forrest gump) and take it like a man. it looks like its going to go right thur Fort Bend County. YEEE-HA!
 
ashon3611 said:
yikes... are you still in houston katie? im going to pull a lieutenant dan (from forrest gump) and take it like a man. it looks like its going to go right thur Fort Bend County. YEEE-HA!
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I added a little red dot for "KT"

Ho. No. *expletive*
the dot is approximate, I'm guessing that's SW houston-bellaire-ish.

CRAAaaaaaaapppp.....

I may be repackaging my PB (ha! the packaging is good for something) or at least preparing it, so if I need to, I can freaking RUN.

I get to go around and take insurance pics of the house tomorrow. fun. :rolleyes:


edit:
that little zit at 30 deg N is me. ish.

it's a big dot because I don't know where Houston is.

I suck.
 
Anybody else having a devil of a time trying to post replies in this thread? Whenever I copy something into the window, it will not go through. That is why I just tried doing this as an alternative. Go figure!
 
thank god my aunty is up in Canada at the moment. she toggles between Toronto and Florida, at least she should be in toroto right now!

America gets all the bad weather and bad earth events. talk about unlucky. volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados. then again you guys are pretty damn big.
maybe i can think like this, but why do people live in dangerous areas? i know that in poorer countries they build farms near volcanoes for the fertile land, but American isn't exactly poor.

EDIT: i havent a clue whats going on. is this going to hit florida?
 
raggedjimmi said:
thank god my aunty is up in Canada at the moment. she toggles between Toronto and Florida, at least she should be in toroto right now!

America gets all the bad weather and bad earth events. talk about unlucky. volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados. then again you guys are pretty damn big.
maybe i can think like this, but why do people live in dangerous areas? i know that in poorer countries they build farms near volcanoes for the fertile land, but American isn't exactly poor.

EDIT: i havent a clue whats going on. is this going to hit florida?
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It's past Florida and heading for the Houston/Galveston Texas area. And, for the most part, we miss out on the volcano events, or at least any major eruptions. Lest we forget the December 2004 tsunami.
 
Whyren said:
It's past Florida and heading for the Houston/Galveston Texas area. And, for the most part, we miss out on the volcano events, or at least any major eruptions. Lest we forget the December 2004 tsunami.
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ah i see, so its picking up power now its back over water? guessing it didn't do much damage in florida, wasn't on any news channels here. they usually say if it was serious
 
raggedjimmi said:
ah i see, so its picking up power now its back over water? guessing it didn't do much damage in florida, wasn't on any news channels here. they usually say if it was serious
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Actually, it's starting to degrade. Anybody else thinking this beast might have enough time to regenerate? Visible Satellite Animation.
 
macartistkel said:
Rita sounds really bad, this is terrible news.

I saw a show on National Geographic last night about the Netherlands and how a quarter of the country is below sea level but they use some great technology to withstand flooding of their homes. If people are so adament about rebuilding in New Orleans then they better spend the money to protect their new homes.
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Yeah, I used to live in the Netherlands, the dutch were very proud of their engineering and how the dike system was much more advanced than any other country. Students came from all over Europe to study the waterworks.
 
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