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Posted on 09/22/2005 3:25:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse
That is what my local t.v. station said.. people in Beaumont headed to Lubbock, TX via military aircraft.. first plane whould be here at 2:00.
"This is where Blank-O asks for 24 hours to rethink her own evacuation order. < /s>"
And where Nagin moves all the buses to the lowest point in the city.
President: Gov. Blanco, what do you need?
Blanco: Um, er, give me everything you've got.
President: What the heck does that mean?
Blanco: Um, er....wait, my connection is bad, I'll call you back later.
The pressure is back up and that is indicative of the weakening in winds caused by the EWRCC. This storm is still a day or more from landfall. She's going to complete her EWRC. The water she's been churning has to go somewhere. She's about to push into shallower water. The water she is pushing will interact with that shelf and not in a good way.
And really, when it's the difference between a Cat 5 25 ft storm surge or a Cat 4 15-20 ft storm surge.. who's counting?
...Or the EIGHTEEN people who fled NO before Katrina, in a Hyundai 4 dr. They were in and on. Many were very heavy adults, sitting on very heavy adults. They were in the trunk, and on the roof, and hood. They got stopped by cops three times, but kept going to Houston...
ILM bump!
For those wanting to step away, they can always read this and then come back:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050921/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/peru_gambia_plane
Jet Fakes Emergency for Gambia Soccer Game
That's a relief, my lady gets grouchy if she misses that or (choke) Oprah.
1 bar = 14.5 psi.
915 millibar = 13.2 psi
1/1000th of a bar
Yup. Instead of talking about allthe things that are going well, and telling people what THEY CAN DO to be prepared, they just nit pick stuff to death. If it's not perfect, they raise hell.
...Rita weakens a little further...remains an extremely dangerous hurricane...
a Hurricane Warning is in effect from Port O'Connor Texas to Morgan City Louisiana. A Hurricane Warning means that hurricane conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours. Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion.
A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect from south of Port O'Connor to Port Mansfield Texas and for the southeastern coast of Louisiana east of Morgan City to the mouth of the Mississippi River. A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours.
A tropical storm watch is in effect from north of the mouth of the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Pearl River including metropolitan New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain...from south of Port Mansfield to Brownsville Texas...and for the northeastern coast of Mexico from Rio San Fernando northward to the Rio Grande. A tropical storm watch means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area...generally within 36 hours.
For storm information specific to your area...including possible inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather office.
At 1 PM CDT...1800z...the center of Hurricane Rita was located near latitude 25.5 north...longitude 89.2 west or about 435 miles...700 km...southeast of Galveston Texas and about 430 miles...695 km... southeast of Port Arthur Texas.
Rita is moving toward the west-northwest near 9 mph...15 km/hr. A gradual turn to the northwest is expected during the next 24 to 36 hours.
Data from a NOAA reconnaissance aircraft indicate that maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 150 mph...240 km/hr... with higher gusts. Rita is now a strong category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Some slight weakening is forecast during the next 24 hours but Rita is expected to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 85 miles...140 km... from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 185 miles...295 km.
Latest minimum central pressure reported by a NOAA hurricane hunter plane was 915 mb...27.01 inches.
Coastal storm surge flooding of 15 to 20 feet above normal tide levels...along with large and dangerous battering waves...can be expected near and to the east of where the center makes landfall. Tides are currently running about 2 foot above normal along the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts in the areas affected by Katrina. Tides in those areas will increase up to 3 to 4 feet and be accompanied by large waves...and residents there could experience some coastal flooding.
Rainfall accumulations of 8 to 12 inches with isolated maximum 15 inch total are possible along the path of Rita particularly over southeast Texas and western Louisiana. In addition...rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches are possible over southeastern Louisiana including New Orleans. Based on the forecast track...rainfall totals in excess of 25 inches are possible after Rita moves inland.
Repeating the 1 PM CDT position...25.5 N... 89.2 W. Movement toward...west-northwest near 9 mph. Maximum sustained winds...150 mph. Minimum central pressure...915 mb.
The next advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 4 PM CDT.
Forecaster Avila
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You MUST be the most anally retentive person ever to post on FR.
To keep up your silly contention for, what is it, about 200 posts (you'll probably have to go back and look) has to be one of the greatest abuses of bandwidth I've ever seen in my 7+ years of posting.
How many hundreds more are you going to keep it up?
A bar is the measure of atmospheric pressure at sealevel. A millibar is 1/1000 of a bar. Meteorologists measure pressure in millibars and it gets converted to inches for the general public. Standard atmospheric pressure is 1,013 millibars so, 900 millibars is REALLY, REALLY low. Wind is the movement of air from high to low pressure. The bigger the difference between the high and low pressure systems next to each other, the higher the winds.
abb:
"good God Almighty. KPLC has gone to day's of our live. them sob's got their priorities straight...."
Norton:
"That's a relief, my lady gets grouchy if she misses that or (choke) Oprah"
I needed a good laugh. I just spit out my Diet Sprite :)
They're not hearing that from us, so someone is telling them the target is different.
I think he's gone but LOL anyway...:-)
President: Gov. Blanco, what do you need?
Blanco: Um, er, give me everything you've got.
That was the really pathetic part. When her "Four Page Request" was questioned, her spokeswoman came out to defend her, "The President should know what we needed." He's supposed to be a mind reader now? Even if he were, it wouldn't help since the slate was blank.
"Trust me, I have been exposed to weather for over 40 years."
Can't resist. Given my age, I have been exposed to weather for over 55 years. There's not a d*mn thing I can do about it, either.
Where's Whoraldo?
My hero :)
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