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Posted on 09/23/2005 9:39:06 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Hurricane Rita is expected to make landfall in the northeast Gulf of Mexico within 24 hours. Tornados have spawned in Louisiana. Water is filling the Ninth Ward of New Orleans again. A bus carrying elderly evacuees was gutted by fire this morning outside Dallas, with multiple fatalities. Television crews have positioned their hurricane reporters throughout the region to attain maximum drama effects. Whoooooa.
The following links are self-updating:
Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Rita Forecast Track Archive
Forecast Models
Buoy Data Western Gulf of Mexico
Houston/Galveston/Beaumont/Lake Charles Wx Watches/Warnings
Jefferson Co TX NWS Weather
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Texas
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Louisiana
Hi Res Houston Flood Zone Map Slow load, great detail
Images:
Lake Charles Long Range Radar Still image, with loop link
Houston/Galveston Long Range Radar Still image, with loop link
Lake Charles Experimental Radar Outages and Delays May Occur
Storm Floater IR Loop
GOM WV Loop
GOM IR Still Image
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)
KHOU-TV/DT Houston
KPRC-TV/DT Houston
KTRK-TV/DT Houston
KTRH-AM Houston
KPLC-TV/DT Lake Charles/Lafayette
KSLA-TV/DT Shreveport
Additional Resources:
FReeper Sign In Thread Check in to let us know whether you are staying, going, and when you get there
FReepers Offering Lodging To Rita Evacuees People and/or Pet Friendly FReepers Offering Shelter
KHOU Houston
KTRK ABC News Houston
KPLC Lake Charles Evac Routes, news
KFDM Beaumont/Port Arthur News, evac info
Hurricane City
Wxnation Houston
Galveston Webcams
Golden Triangle Weather Page Provides Galveston Weather, Warnings, Radar, etc.
| Category | Wind Speed | Barometric Pressure | Storm Surge | Damage Potential |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical Depression |
< 39 mph < 34 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Tropical Storm |
39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Hurricane 1 (Weak) |
74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts |
28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more |
4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m |
Minimal damage to vegetation |
| Hurricane 2 (Moderate) |
96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts |
28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb |
6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m |
Moderate damage to houses |
| Hurricane 3 (Strong) |
111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts |
27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb |
9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m |
Extensive damage to small buildings |
| Hurricane 4 (Very strong) |
131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts |
27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb |
13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m |
Extreme structural damage |
| Hurricane 5 (Devastating) |
Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts |
Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb |
Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m |
Catastrophic building failures possible |
Previous Threads:
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part III
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm Rita
Tropical Depression 18
I know Rush loves Snapple. My problem is that I don't like sweet tea.
ON FRIDAY!!!!
Jefferson Parish to Gov. Blanco: Sorry, wrong number
5:11 p.m.
By Matt Scallan
Kenner bureau
Some Jefferson Parish residents got a telephone call from Gov. Blanco urging them to evacuate for Hurricane Rita on Friday, but the automated calls turned out to be wrong numbers.
The company distributing Blanco's message, Voicetouch Communciations, which has completed similar notification programs in Florida, inadvertently included Jefferson Parish in calls telling residents to get out of coastal parishes farther west in Louisiana.
"They pulled the Jefferson Parish phone numbers along with the Jefferson Davis Parish numbers," Blanco spokeswoman Denise Bottcher said. "Once they realized their mistake, they stopped the calls in Jefferson."
Jefferson Davis Parish is about 170 miles west of Jefferson Parish.
Almost 300,000 Blanco calls were delivered. Bottcher said she did not know how many calls were mistakenly made to Jefferson Parish.
The call program is designed to ensure that residents who may not be watching television or listening to the radio get the word to get out, Bottcher said.
In the future, she said, the message will be customized for individual parishes.
I was on the roof.......
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How you doing Nita??
Personallly, I'm finding the Princess Bride on FMC more informative.
And you're a southerner?
more will follow.
Fox saying it could stall because nothing to move it once it hits land. 25-30 inches of rain possible
UT has a nice set of maps for not only Texas but just about anywhere you can imagine:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Has anyone asked where Steve Harrigan is?
Whooaaaaaaaaa!!!
[poor guy will never live that down]
Entergy New Orleans Inc., a subsidiary of New Orleans’ only Fortune 500 company, filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization Friday after facing staggering repair costs from Hurricane Katrina with few customers to provide revenue.
Oops.
that Fox lady keeps adding inches...I bet it will be 50 inches by 1am
I am a Texan - although I used to drink sweet tea - lost the taste when I got rid of the ex.
we have clouds all the way up here in Ohio that seem to be a part of this storm. Check a water vapor satellite.
I heard Steve is heading to the middle east again.
Real neighborly of them.
According to this Oil rig map Rita is barreling through quite a bit.. am i correct ????? http://gom.rigzone.com/rita.asp
What? She put arsenic in with it?
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