Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part IV

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

[BurbankKarl]

The Houston EOC is telling people to head East toward Baton Rouge then north to Jackson MS....they will get farther away faster.

[rwfromkansas]

save it to your computer and enlarge in photoshop

[Eaker]

Lots of homes are using propane inside. Stove, dryer, waterheater, gas logs in the fireplace, etc.

If you are safe in your application you will be fine. Propane produces no more CO than Natural gas.

[SauronOfMordor]

He did use secondary roads all the way up........problem was he started out in Galveston and couldn't get across Houston to access the roads to the west.

I see. I was wondering about getting off 45 around Bayou Vista or League City, then striking out west using the regular streets past Santa Fe and Alvin, but that's moot at this point

[CedarDave]

Houston Road Conditions/Cams here:

http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/cameras/camtext.aspx

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT

[mware]

She is only moving forward at 9 mph. If Rita is 150 miles wide that will take it more that 16 1/2 hours to pass over an area.

[Arizona Carolyn]

He replayed it on the radio this afternoon... What a jerk Donahue is.

[backhoe]

Is it some sort of spring?

No- that may be why you are having problems.

Turn it around, and on the back plate are several screws-- ignore all but one, different from the others, which is inside a little hole in the plate. That is the adjusting screw.

All the other screws mount the innards to the plate, and should not move easily-- the recessed adjustment screw should move easily, and when it does, the dial reading will go up or down according to the direction of rotation.

I haven't done this since being a teenager, setting the barometers on Dad's boats, but it can't have changed that much!

[BurbankKarl]

Texas DPS said they wanted to distribute fuel at the rest areas...but they cant reach them

[trillabodilla]

Clouds and wind have arrived in Zachary, LA.

Heeeeere we go!

[cajungirl]

amazing link that is!

[Tuxedo]

What exactly is the steering current that is supposed to cause Rita to turn North or Northwest? Still looks more or less westward to me. With no turn, Corpus Christi is the target.

[RDTF]

Thanks for that link!

[steve86]

Propane produces no more CO than Natural gas.

They both can produce prodigious amounts of CO if oxygen in the area is depleted.

[conservative in nyc]

According to The Handbook of Texas, a 23-foot seawall was built near Texas City after it was inundated by 4 feet of water in by Hurricane Camille in 1961. The seawall was completed in 1985. In 1982, the city built an 8-foot high levee on Moses Lake, to the north of the city, and installed pumps.

Texas City may be on the clean side of the storm, but what happens will depend on the storm surge. It's less than 10 feet above sea level in most places behind the wall, and directly across from the Texas City Channel that connects Galveston Bay to the Gulf. It's likely that any storm surge thrown into the Bay will head there first. And the 8-foot Moses Lake levee may be vulnerable to any water pushed by northerly winds. I don't know if they have a gate to close in the narrow inlet from Galveston Bay to Moses Lake.

[Eaker]

Brother, I'll take a 10 or 15 round semi over your revolver anytime.

Semis have been pretty good since about 1911.

[mewzilla]

She is only moving forward at 9 mph. If Rita is 150 miles wide that will take it more that 16 1/2 hours to pass over an area.

Wow. Well, let's hope something happens to give her a goose.

[gab1279]

Leaving Port Arthur now. We're scared to death.

The storm surge is supposed to come in in a matter of MINUTES. Up to the roof. I pray everyone is getting out and there will be no deaths.

The projected flooding here is unbelieveable, 40 mi inland. Whole area covered.

I know a lot of people don't know much about our little area, but it's real nice. Awful lot of people over here when you get right down to it, Beaumont is pretty big, the highways are unreal getting them out.

Thankfully now switching to contraflow on our route out. We're going to Shreveport.

[steveegg]

What exactly is the steering current that is supposed to cause Rita to turn North or Northwest? Still looks more or less westward to me. With no turn, Corpus Christi is the target.

From the 4 pm discussion, it's a high that's expected to slide east that will allow Rita to hook more to the north. Vortex reports have been showing a WNW-to-NW movement the last several hours.