Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part IV

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

[eastforker]

I live in Houston and everyone in authority has been preaching evacuation for days, what he said was BS.

[Cboldt]

Water heater and furnace vent the flue gas. Range top doesn't, but is usually close to a kitchen vent anyway, and for cooking, the mass of gas burned v. the volume of a kitchen poses no risk of CO poisoning.

[Abigail Adams]

By the way, MN took a lickin' last night. Big ol' storm. F-2 tornado. Some suburbs will be without power for nearly a week. The worst of it was just a bit north of us. But it was the scariest storm we've been through. One tree split a few houses down from us. You can read about the excitement here:

http://www.startribune.com/

[EX52D]

Great news! :)

[LA Woman3]

It is going to be fine here (Baton Rouge)....
After all the LSU vs. Tennessee game is still scheduled for tomorrow night!! /sarc.

[burzum]

isn't 913 MB REALLY low for only 145 MPH?

Perhaps. If I were in the Gulf area I would be more worried about the barometric pressure than the wind speed. If I recall correctly, the storm surge is almost entirely due to the low pressure in a hurricane (though I could be wrong). Obviously there is a relation between wind speed and barometric pressure, but since a hurricane is a very complex beast, it is a very complex relation. I'm paying attention to the pressure which indicates that a Cat 5 storm surge is heading towards Texas.

[Temple Owl]

Let's ask John Jamieson. What do you think John?

[Michael Goldsberry]

calibrate the barometer?

I have no idea how to do that. I'll just read the thing and report what it says. How far off can it be?

Besides, this thing was Grandpa's... (That means it's one tough SOB!)

Heh...

[steveegg]

Ouch. Don't you have any good news?

[tx_eggman]

He had a point- automatics have all sorts of different safeties, but wheel-guns? You grab and fire.

Spktyr:One word: Glock.

Ding, ding, ding ... we have a winner ... Don Pardo, tell Spktyr what he's won

[jeffers]

New graphic, based on the 1700 CDT data:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/02J.jpg

[RDTF]

[Zacs Mom]

I had to chuckle - hubby said that at one he really needed to 'take a whiz' and there was no place to stop .... a stretch of that those good ol' Texas wide open spaces .... anyway, he finally pulled over to the side of the road and told his aunt he was going to go do some business behind that tree over yonder.

She said, "Fine, I'm going to use that one over there!"

rotfl...........this is a 94 year old woman and she just troops off to the bushes and does her business! (and in broad daylight, mind you!)

[steveegg]

The green is NY Times stock. The red is the S&P. The blue is the DJIA.

ROFL

[bwteim]

52kb.... awful thin ice;)

[realpatriot]

I have a propane refrigerator and it is unvented. It is GREAT for times like these. I don't worry about it, but to keep the peace, I have two CO alarms in the area! (They have never alarmed)

[Wneighbor]

The secondary roads are bumper to bumper too according to my brother who lives near a few.

And I'm 180 miles NW of Houston on one of those smaller highways that runs straight into the Houston area. Traffic has been bumper to bumper since I got out at 8:30 this morning. Don't think these highways are much better than the interstate.

Although - our gas is relatively cheap.

[eastforker]

Untill it jams, if you can cock it you can fire it, nufff said.

[Howlin]

and she retains here annular form, she'll be officially recognized as being an annular hurricane

I knew it!

[greyfoxx39]

I lived in Waco from '92-97. my mother and brother are still there. I have been a little worried about local flooding and tornadoes in that area.