for two days
Just to add more perspective from a blog on weather underground:
Assuming an eyewall cycle phase has begun, and given the slightly cooler, and significantly shallower warm water Rita
is passing over, the storm could weaken top a borderline CAT4/Cat 5 during the next 12-24 hours. At that point it
will stabilize, probably as an extremely strong CAT 4 or low end CAT 5. By the time of landfall Saturday morning, Rita should
be a CAT 4, with winds of 120mhp, and gusts to 150mph. Enough to cause tremendous wind damage to well built, non masonry
structures. However, the storm surge will cause complete devastation within 1-3 miles of the coastline near the point of landfall.
The latest guidance, and one I believe we need to go on from this point forward - is a landfall between Galveston
and Port Arthur. Galveston has a slightly higher probability from a statistical standpoint for the various models,
but since 00Z and then the 06Z runs and now the 12Z runs of the GFS, landfall is consistently being shown
closer to the west side of Port Arthur.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/SteveGregory/show.html
NautiNurse wrote:
"Any one else have a sick feeling?"
"for two days"
Thought of a name yet?
Yep. What's worse is I just found my uncle three days ago that worked off LA (oil rig), they were on some vessel with his boss (they were last to leave the rig), couldn't dock anywhere and my aunt was to pick him up. She goes yesterday and he said he was going back out on the vessel... I said What?, she was crying. Now where could they possibly go with this monster coming. Unreal.
They lost the house in LA, my aunt is with relatives in Picayune MS. She is beyond herself and rightly so.