Update: Category 5 Hurricane Rita - Live Thread, Part II

NHC - NOAA ^ | 21 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[Mama25]

Jonah, call your office. The Boss wants to talk to you.

[BurbankKarl]

Oops.

[Rebelbase]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488819/posts

[Aggie Mama]

We are in NW Houston too. We thought we would ride it out, but now I'm concerned. Here's a general question for Houston FReepers, who is leaving from this part of town and why?

[Twinkie]

They said on the news that Tennessee was taking 3,000 of them.

[LikeLight]

My understanding was that the Astrodome itself had already been emptied, through placement of refugees into more permanent living arrangements, and that a few thousand refugees were left in the adjacent Reliant Center. Those from the Reliant Center are the ones recently shipped up to Arkansas.

On an unrelated note, the northward jog I saw on the last few satellite frames of Rita is getting more pronounced now.

[steveegg]

Do we have some links to Texas TV or radio stations?

KHOU (CBS) - LIVE feed (links already above in the "article" part of the post)
KTRK (ABC) (no live feed yet, link also above)
KPRC (NBC) - LIVE stream (offers a choice between Windows Media Player and RealPlayer, and between 56k and 200k streams) - NEW INFO

[AliVeritas]

Good one.

Guy on Hannity finally announced it's becoming a five and said to those in Texas, 'This is Carla'.

[cwiz24]

The girl on TWC just said the storm probably goinng to come in on the Texas Coast:')

Wow--nothing gets by her, huh?

[Brad’s Gramma]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arizona Carolyn]

They had camera's there yesterday showing people with their bags waiting in line to get on buses and leave there.

[Zechariah_8_13]

Can you believe the insensitivity of Galveston to be putting people on un-air-conditioned buses in the late summer in South Texas? And there's not bathrooms! The horror!

And to think, millions of innocent children are forced to ride on these buses every day! For years! It's an outrage!

;)

[don-o]

book it don-o

[AliVeritas]

Contrary to reports and previous links, it is a five. Get moving.

[Arizona Carolyn]

The President's Ranch is probably in the current path since they said there is going to he hurricane force winds all the way to Austin and Waco.

[NautiNurse]

I just noticed the title of this thread has been changed to reflect a Cat 5. Does that mean it's official now?

No, it doesn't mean it is officially a Cat 5. I don't know why the title was changed to Cat 5 when the NHC has not published an update to that effect.

[neutrality]

Recon just found 157kt flight level winds (up from 153kt)

[steveegg]

Fouled up the link to the main KPRC page, though the live stream link is good. Sorry about that.

[neutrality]

Make that 161kt

[NautiNurse]

thanks for the webcam link