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Cat 5 Hurricane Rita has tracked more northward during the night. Beaumont/Port Arthur/Lake Charles heads up.
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Posted on 09/22/2005 3:25:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Good morning, NN. I was just catching up on the prior thread. Don't know what to say other than good grief. It is beginning to look like the evacuation problems may be the Achilles heel here. Hours on the highway and running out of gas with cars breaking down. Not good.
Do you have a ping list for the Rita threads? If so, please add me on to it. Thanks.
Big shift north. Looks like this is going to hammer NOLA with rain.
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Cat 5 Hurricane Rita has tracked more northward during the night. Beaumont/Port Arthur/Lake Charles heads up.
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Cat 5 Hurricane Rita has tracked more northward during the night. Beaumont/Port Arthur/Lake Charles heads up.
Thread for Thursday morning. I know you're on the case.
If this thing tracks further north and east then they need to start evacuating some of the areas further up the coast. This could be a nasty surprise for some.
Satellite shows some weakening of the storm - nothing major though - but still.
The National Weather Service said early Thursday that Rita packs maximum sustained winds of nearly 175 miles an hour and stands as the third most powerful Atlantic storm ever seen, based on pressure readings taken by "hurricane hunter" aircraft.
"Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next 24 hours," a National Weather Service advisory said.
As of early Thursday, the hurricane watch zone extended from Port Mansfield, Texas, to Intracoastal City, La.
I suppose I could try to walk out. That's what some of the posters said the people without cars in NOLA should have done.
Special Wx statements for louisiana areas.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/la.html#LAZ013.SHVSPSSHV.103200
Heard it's down to 150 from 175
NOLA is going to be the least of our worries this time around. Even if the levees don't hold it'll just set the timetable back for drying out the city. Look west for the real problems. Texas and Houston are going to get a chance to see if they can do any better than Louisiana did, because it sure looks like they're going to get tested.
OK, who's in charge of tracking news reports and FEMA activities for the after-storm timeline?
Was the traffic gridlocked all night long?
Good morning. I decided to take leave from work thru the rest of this week and I will be online for most of the day, today monitoring the situation.
We are in College Station.
This is beyond belief.
Not according to the weather channel guy I just heard on the radio. Still Cat 5 at 175, gusts to 200.
I'm thinking so. It was @ 11pm last nite and 4am this morning.
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