Go west people! Heck, even southwest would be better than going north on 45. We welcome you here in Austin.
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Posted on 09/22/2005 3:25:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse
This is not true...it is forecast to be at 125kt (144 mph) at landfall, and 100kt 30 miles inland.
FOX now blabbing about Nola again, alarming viewers.
Countless thousands, millions hoping that Rita will weaken.
ReporterDude saying Mayor Nagin said: "If you want to get out, I have a bus for you"
As was just mentioned in the TX gov.'s news conference, the high that is helping to steer the hurricane more northward is anticipated to lose strength. Thus they expect the storm to at some point resume a more westward course. Lots of variables in play. It will go somewhere between Port O'Connor, TX and New Iberia, LA, and likely between the town of Matagorda and Lake Charles. Can't simply extrapolate based on a few hours movement, things are too dynamic.
On another thread someone said that if there was a ranking for a Category 6 storm, Rita would be it.
Is that true?
I've noticed with the vehicles we've owned over the years that the miles per tank are about the same. The bigger the vehicle, the bigger the tank, so we can go about as far on a tank in out mini-van as we can in our Accord and we used to in our Escort. Of course, I drive the car as much as possible, but in a situation like this, you'd get about the same distance for most vehicles on a full tank.
The problem being that the gas trucks are going to run into the same traffic problems that everyone else is having.
Go west people! Heck, even southwest would be better than going north on 45. We welcome you here in Austin.
No...when they made the scale, they stopped at CAT 5 b/c, in the words of Dr. Simpson, once the winds hit 155 mph, it doesn't matter anymore.
I use this formula to predict surge.
Outer eyewall to outer eyewall radius is assigned the variable R.
Max surge begins halfway between eyecenter at landfall and outer left eyewall at landfall.
Max surge stretches right for a distance of 2 times R, with a third value of R getting less dangerous but still significant surge.
This has served me well.
Yes, but this hing is a monster, do you wqnt to be hit with a speeding truck or a speeding bus.
Does that family have laps?
You mean they haven't evacuated the Katrina refurgees? Oh. my. God. God Help Louisiana. Texas will take care of itself. (just kidding, we can't do it without God either)
If we arrest you now, or during the storm, you will spend the rest of the time at the jail at your own risk.
A weakened high would allow it to go further east, not west.
Is the storm weakening a bit - down from 175 to 165 mph.
About the only certainty right now is that a direct NO hit is impossible.
Yes, and with all the NO evacuees that you guys have absorbed, I don't blame them one bit. We're jus' poor northern folk. One per driver, and when the kids start working, they get their own. (They're no even in college yet.)
Almost always. Dennis did the opposite at landfall. The outer affects were more significant to the east than the west but the eyewall effects were much stronger on its west side.
idiots on TWC still pushing galveston.
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