Actually, if it hit New Orleans again, it might be better to have it hit twice than to have New Orleans AND Houston destroyed.
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Hurricane Rita
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Bad Brains said:
actually the big hurricane that hit Galveston back in the early 1900's was supposedly accompanied by another Cat5 that never came to shore, from what I remember... I just can't remember if it was before or afterwards.
I read somewhere that in the last 8 years hurricanes have become much more powerful. I wonder if this is just natural or if all this global warming talk has anything to do with it.
Things like this are going to happen though. The gulf coast is so built up today that these kind of storms are going to have catastraphic results. I think people should really think twice about building a life in an area prone to hurricanes.
Things like this are going to happen though. The gulf coast is so built up today that these kind of storms are going to have catastraphic results. I think people should really think twice about building a life in an area prone to hurricanes.
Bad Brains said:
The Old Farmer's Almanac had an article in last year's issue that said something to the effect that Atlantic ocean hurricanes peak and ebb in roughly 30 year cycles, and we just entered the beginning of another peak cycle.
Also, every year more and more people move to coastal areas giving the storms more targets to hit.
I'll see if I can find a link to the article I'm talking about.
Mike
The infamous Galveston hurricane was in 1900, if I recall the first verse of the song correctly.
"In the year of 1900,
____ long years ago,
Death came calling on the ocean.
Death call you got to go."
I logged onto the NOAA website a few minutes ago and was extremely impressed with the growth of Rita in the past 10 hours. I don't think it is going to get less intense until it hits land. I'll bet when I walk out of the office in a half an hour I'll find gas prices up $0.10 or $0.20 per gallon.
I would sure be heading inland, and I hope our forum members on the Texas or west Louisiana coasts are doing just that instead of logging on here. Good luck guys!
"In the year of 1900,
____ long years ago,
Death came calling on the ocean.
Death call you got to go."
I logged onto the NOAA website a few minutes ago and was extremely impressed with the growth of Rita in the past 10 hours. I don't think it is going to get less intense until it hits land. I'll bet when I walk out of the office in a half an hour I'll find gas prices up $0.10 or $0.20 per gallon.
I would sure be heading inland, and I hope our forum members on the Texas or west Louisiana coasts are doing just that instead of logging on here. Good luck guys!
budman
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We don't know what we're going to do. Right now no direction looks like a good direction to head in. I've been watching it all day and it looks like the storm continues to head west. The projected path says the eye will pass over near Corpus Christi. I've yet to see any sort of up swing heading into central Texas like they're predicting though. They keep bending the arc on the maps to make it reflect they're predictions. I'll keep watching it well into the night. My gut tells me it will continue west and will nail S. Padre/Brownsville, though my gut has been known to be wrong in the past...
Anyone with common sense would get out of there ASAP.
But of course you know that won't happen. Some people whom are not so smart will attempt to ride this one out again.
But of course you know that won't happen. Some people whom are not so smart will attempt to ride this one out again.
I'm in Houston near the 610-south loop. My employer just closed down shop and is locking up the doors. Gulp.
Pretty much decided to ride this one out. Got all my essential, plenty of water, eats, beer, 20gals of fuel for the generator and my Dingwall collection is going 40ft in the air in a sealed locked closet.
Worst part is the highways are all but inpassable w/ everyone evacuating from galveston (55k people), and the houston residents that live close. (another 200K).
The news is reporting that there are very few hotel rooms available in dallas, or in many of the small town dotting the escape route north. remember there are over 4 million that live in houston. This should be an eye opener.
Lastly, from what the weather forecasters are predicting landfall should be between galveston and matagorda (about 70miles south) so Houston proper might be in for a hum-dinger, this hurricane is huge. I'll be in the rear w/ the beer and the gear
frank
Pretty much decided to ride this one out. Got all my essential, plenty of water, eats, beer, 20gals of fuel for the generator and my Dingwall collection is going 40ft in the air in a sealed locked closet.
Worst part is the highways are all but inpassable w/ everyone evacuating from galveston (55k people), and the houston residents that live close. (another 200K).
The news is reporting that there are very few hotel rooms available in dallas, or in many of the small town dotting the escape route north. remember there are over 4 million that live in houston. This should be an eye opener.
Lastly, from what the weather forecasters are predicting landfall should be between galveston and matagorda (about 70miles south) so Houston proper might be in for a hum-dinger, this hurricane is huge. I'll be in the rear w/ the beer and the gear
frank
Well, I was watching the weather channel today and the projected path currently shows this thing curving up and passing dead center over Waco. Who knows what will happen though. My mother-in-law is on her way from North Houston to stay with us. I may have to cancel my planned dove hunt down to Devine this weekend.
brad cook
brad cook
budman
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We shut down the office at 11:00 today. The freeways were already a mess. Things might thin out in the middle of the night, which is when we might leave if we leave. I'm still not convinced we'll get the brunt of it, not yet anyway.
Mike Money
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I actually saw gas prices DOWN today, at 2.59 the cheapest I saw.
Anyways, as of 3 am, I am getting the hell out of here. I live off of highway 225 in Deer Park, you other Houstonians might know this area.
Anyways, as of 3 am, I am getting the hell out of here. I live off of highway 225 in Deer Park, you other Houstonians might know this area.
Bassic83 said:
Hey bro, I lived in south Florida for 9 years and went through Andrew which was one mean mother of a Hurricane. I remember (right now like it just happened) my wife and I lying in a bathtub with a mattress over top of us praying that if we lived through it we would never have to BE ASKED to leave again....we always left in a bad one after that. We were on the second floor of a really nice condo and the wind picked up a palm tree and drove it THROUGH my next door neighbor's unit!! It went completely through the condo and wound up in the pool on the other side of the building!! Fortunately my neighbors, a really nice retired couple from South Africa had listened and got out..
DON'T TAKE ANY CHANCES!! If she won't leave, tell her you will go without her, she will either leave or not. SHE IS YOUR GIRLFRIEND, you only have 1 life...trust me, when it gets bad you will do anything to be able to get out and you can't!! I will pray for you and all those that are in the path of the storm, you can not take the chance, people WILL die if they don't get out...PLEASE don't let someone elses stupidity cost you your life! Let Katrina give you an idea of what is possible, but believe me when I tell you that you can not get any sense of what it is really like unless you actually see it in person, the TV does not even begin to show you how bad it is!!!!! God Bless.....
By the way, you should know that a Cat 4 or 5 this size will affect an area more than 100 miles across and as much as 300 miles front to rear so even if you are 20 miles from the ocean, winds of JUST 110-120 miles an hour will DESTROY most modern constructed buildings and even worse for older construction. The latest update has SUSTAINED winds at 175 MPH! That means it is is strengthening very quickly and if I recall is now very close to becoming STRONGER than Andrew and look how much further it has to go in the deeper warm water. This was a Category 1 this morning folks...don't be surprised if sustained winds exceed 200 MPH if this thing continues to strengthen....I am very concerned that this may in fact turn out to be the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the history of this planet....Take heed.....GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN if you live anywhere near the projected path....ESPECIALLY if they will move you with no expense to you...
Peace,
T
Are they joking?
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175 mph????
This seriously has to be a joke. Have we ever had a hurricane get that powerful in the Atlantic or Gulf?
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175 mph????
This seriously has to be a joke. Have we ever had a hurricane get that powerful in the Atlantic or Gulf?
DMB said:
Yikes. Simply unbelievable.
Please, everyone - stay safe, and if you're anywhere near the projected path of this thing, don't hesitate to skip town for a while.
DigMe said:
I would think shooting doves in a 175 mph head wind would be the ultimate sporting challenge!
Seriously Texas Dudes grab your basses and get inland! Also I bought Gas today for 2.49 in Detroit.
DMB said:
Actually, yes, in 1969 Hurricane Camille came ashore essentially where Katrina just did, with sustained winds of an estimated 210 mph. The only reason it wasn't more devastating than Katrina is that it was SLIGHTLY further east, and there was much less development on the Mississippi Gulf Coast at that time.
A weather advisory I just read says that Rita has winds gusting up to 215 miles an hour and sustained winds of 175 miles an hour. Those gusts are tornado strength!
Let's just hope and pray that something, anything slows this bad girl down. If she roars ashore as a Cat 5 or strong Cat 4, gas might see $4.00 or $5.00 a gallon depending on how badly Houston oil refineries are hit.
The main thing is for anyone in her path to GET OUT. I can tell you how terrifying a hurricane is after counting every minute during Frances and Jeanne. I just kept saying, "Five more minutes. Five more minutes. If I can just get through five more minutes." I just kept watching that water and praying. Those two nights were the longest of my life. Don't do that to yourself. In retrospect, I realize how silly...how stupid it was to stay there just ten yards from the rip-roaring Intracoastal. Don't be like that. What for? Get out of Rita's path. She is on a rampage. You don't want to witness that.
Let's just hope and pray that something, anything slows this bad girl down. If she roars ashore as a Cat 5 or strong Cat 4, gas might see $4.00 or $5.00 a gallon depending on how badly Houston oil refineries are hit.
The main thing is for anyone in her path to GET OUT. I can tell you how terrifying a hurricane is after counting every minute during Frances and Jeanne. I just kept saying, "Five more minutes. Five more minutes. If I can just get through five more minutes." I just kept watching that water and praying. Those two nights were the longest of my life. Don't do that to yourself. In retrospect, I realize how silly...how stupid it was to stay there just ten yards from the rip-roaring Intracoastal. Don't be like that. What for? Get out of Rita's path. She is on a rampage. You don't want to witness that.
