Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VI

NHC - NOAA ^ | 23 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[Fawn]

Funny..

".. Rising waters spill over New Orleans levees. Mayor Ray Nagin calms fears by telling residents that it's just the rinse cycle .."

[Lemondropkid31]

I dont know if it would be another Allison. We may not even get any rain out of this

[cgk]

Accuweather's storm path forecast has it stalling out for 48 hours in northeast TX along the LA border... not good if accurate.

[steveegg]

gasoline down $0.10 and crude down $1.70 on the nymex..

Natural Gas also down 0.27.

[Revel]

it could be a thin layer of concrete over the top of that(In your pic). I know I have seen pictures on TV where they were just pushing in dirt and rocks to repair the levee's. And I have also heard that many of the levees were earth even before Katrina. I guess we will find out later what happened.

[eastforker]

My thoughts exactly.

[ekwd]

http://www.nbc10.com/weather/3735525/detail.html

http://www.nbc10.com/weather/3735525/detail.html

This are some articles about what Ivan did when the eye of Ivan went in over Pensacola.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489887/posts?page=268#286
Great for a chuckle!

[cgk]

Forgot the link, sorry:

http://sirocco.accuweather.com/adc_hurr_images/2005/ar/UHAR_2.GIF

[blam]

I was present at the Grand Opening of Jack's. I'm suprised it's still open.

[AlleyCat48]

Thanks!! I've already surfed over all the different topics and this site is really informative.

[steveegg]

Check that; north-northwest (been thinking WNW so long it automatically popped up).

[oceanview]

TWC says Rita is weakening. it does appear to be gettng a little ragged on the west/southwest side.

[Double Tap]

I could not disagree more strongly. He used to run the NHC, and is as good as it gets.

I agree 100%. He is a good man.

[ken5050]

Well, I have a two car garage...yet for reasons that escape me..actualy they don't..I've just chosen to blank them out...I've been unable to get MY car inside it for years..

[steveegg]

Is the Cat3 forecast too high now?

Nope. The 10 am advisory had her at the border between a Cat 3 and Cat 4. The intermediary should be out in about 10-15 minutes.

[blam]

To answer your question from the other thread. Yes, I lived in the Houston area for 20+ years.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Welcome to FR! You will love it here!

[cgk]

weather.com's path seems to agree with accuweather's stalling forecast, calling for Rita to not clear TX/LA border until "Mon-Wed".

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/map_tropprjpath18_fcst_5nhato_enus_600x405.jpg

[RedBloodedAmerican]

One good benefit to having had several hurricanes go over and by me last year; the counterclockwise rotations of 3 consecutive hurricanes blew the mosquito population to...who knows where? The mosquitoes this year are the lightest I have seen in 8 years. Hopefully that will happen to the bayou area as well.