Take a look at the water vapor image for Rita
The EYE is scheduled to make landfall on Friday night/Saturday morning. Rita is a BIG storm. The texas coast will probably start seeing the outer rain bands sometime tonight, and be seeing high winds by tomorrow afternoon. NOLA will see outer rain bands later this morn by the looks of it
Rita's not as perfectly symmetrical as Katrina. This is the ugly twin..
Dang, Rita is as big as Texas! That's a whole lotta rain.