I understand all that, but Rita is not moving to the East.
The cone has certainly shifted east.
No time for semantics.
Sorry, just more important stuff happening right now.
Hurricanes can and do change directions at the last moment.
Hurricanes can and do die out at the last moment. You cannot depend on either. As big is this one is now the eye could go in over LA and still cut of Galveston/Houston from the world for days. Get out.