Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part IV

NHC - NOAA ^ | 22 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[Torie]

Houston not out of the woods at all, and the models are amazingly disparate this late. This storm is confusing to the weather folks to get a handle on it seems, more so than Katrina.

[AliVeritas]

I know, I saw it live when the cameras went up to the door with the cops... they opened the garage... cases of juice and everything else loaded in there... it was unbelievable.
Wish I could find that video... that is a must see.

[tx_eggman]

I'm sort of with HC on this one . . . doesn't seem like there's as much to worry about, now that she's turning east and we won't catch the dirty side.

Yo, Double Tap ... here's another one, if you want to be consistent, you'd better get after it.

[Zacs Mom]

M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m ~ Sounds yummy! If traffic was flowing south I'd be thinkjing seriously about heading your way!! I've roasted 2 chickens and am doing a big chicken salad, too, (with pecans instead of walnuts though) but I don't have any boneless chicken stuffed with etouffee in the oven and that sounds heavenly!!

[abb]

and storm weakening, too, prolly

[JFC]

I have met my match....

[Eaker]

It is clear skys and almost 100F here.

Is there really a storm out there?

Gotta go cut up some mesquite by hand as humblegunner has my chainsaw.

Curses to you humble!

I think that I will go back to the store and let people know that I have plenty of "D" batteries but I don't want to sell any!

[SE Mom]

You can't make this s%^t up.

[dfwgator]

The lesson learned is that somehow, they need to figure out how to phase the evacuations so that they do it by area. Probably by staggering the times that roads are open and that certain areas only have a certain window to get out, then the next area is let out and so forth, so that not everybody tries to leave at the same time.

Logistically it would be difficult but still I think it's possible.

[brothers4thID]

Thank goodness UKMET is the outlier track there. It's giving me the willies.

[WoodstockCat]

you're not kidding..rather tighten up..24 hours out the models don't have a convergance point...the worst thing to happen now could be people returning from places they've already left.

[bwteim]

There are going to be some surprised people if that is their attitude. Let's hope we don't have the devastation that Katrina caused east of its landfall.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

..... did I leave out that it's CRAWFISH etoufee?

[Dog Gone]

It's not that simple. People didn't leave when they should have (except in Galveston) and you just can't contraflow the freeways easily. Every onramp has to be blocked for about 100 miles, and just as soon as you do it, you're cutting off access to the city. Doctors coming to work at the hospitals. People living north of the airport trying to catch a flight. Trucks delivering water, plywood, and gasoline.

Not only that, WAY more people evacuated than were in "mandatory evacuation" areas. My subdivision is nearly empty, and we're 50 miles from the closest evacuation area. My next door neighbor left for Austin around 9 a.m. today. I'll bet he's nearly made it to I-10 by now, which is about four miles away.

[Strategerist]

Eh, not all that disparate.

The UKMET is now sort of out by itself (and it's already not verifying...init time for that model was 8AM today; at 2PM, Rita is already south of where the UKMET had forecast the storm to be 6 hours from 8AM.

GUNA consensus is now over Pt. Arthur Texas.

[Double Tap]

Why would you try to pick at something that is done with?

[Aggie Mama]

All of the local news forecasters--Frank Billingsly and David Paul in particular.

[CedarDave]

Note: I have absolutely no idea what a millibar is.

A smaller bar than that which you get in your high-priced room at the better hotels. Also called a minibar.

(Better answers are given elsewhere on the thread)

[Gondring]

Tell me where along the MS coastline there are levees.

Follow the thread back and tell me where MS was mentioned in it until you did. Landfall was made prior to MS (heck, it made landfall in FL :-).

I don't really want to argue over it or be pendantic. I just wanted to point out that there's speculation that it was not as severe as previously believed when it hit LA--a factor to consider when rebuilding.

[Carolinamom]

LOL! This mom of 5 KNOWS about kids crowded in back seats even for a couple of hours.