Jesu Christe! Have you seen this?
OFFSHORE WATERS FORECAST FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO
GMZ080-230930-
NW GULF N OF 25N W OF 90W
INCLUDING FLOWER GARDEN BANKS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY
1030 PM CDT THU SEP 22 2005
HURRICANE WARNING E OF 95W
TONIGHT
TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS OR GREATER WITHIN 180 NM
NE QUADRANT...150 NM SE AND NW QUADRANTS...100 NM SW AND 140 NM
NW QUADRANT. HIGHEST WINDS 120 KT GUSTS 145 KT NEAR CENTER. SEAS
12 FT OR GREATER WITHIN 300 NM N SEMICIRCLE AND 250 NM S
SEMICIRCLE. ******HIGHEST SEAS 55 FT.****** REMAINDER AREA WINDS 20 TO 33
KT. SEAS BUILDING TO 9 TO 12 FT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SQUALLS E
OF 95W.
FRI AND FRI NIGHT
TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS OR GREATER
WITHIN 180 NM NE QUADARNT...160 NM SE AND NW QUADRANTS AND 120
NM SW QUADRANT. HIGHEST WINDS 125 KT GUSTS 155 KT NEAR CENTER OF
RITA FRI DECREASING TO 115 KT GUSTS 140 KT NEAR CENTER OF RITA
FRI NIGHT. SEAS 12 FT OR GREATER WITHIN AREA OF TROPICAL FORCE
WINDS..WITH HIGHEST SEAS 5O FT. ELSEWHERE WINDS 20 TO 33 KT.
SEAS 8 TO 12 FT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SQUALLS ENTIRE AREA.
"On Bellaire Boulevard in southwest Houston, a weeping woman and her young daughter stood on the sidewalk, surrounded by plastic bags full of clothes and blankets. "I'd like to go, but nobody come get me," the woman said in broken English. When asked her name, she looked frightened. "No se, no se," she said: Spanish for "I don't know."
Her daughter, who appeared to be about 9, whispered in English, "We're from Mexico." "
Going to be lots of complaints when this is over. Will Mexico officials claim that The Governor was trying to kill the illegal aliens a la Sharpton and Jackson.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489748/posts
Uh oh...Plaquemines Parish will go under again....so will St. Bernards, it'll start to anyway...there's either a breach or a deliberately open flood control gate in the SW part of the St B's Parish levee system...
Galveston's seawall will get flanked too...ditto for Texas City...
Might as well bring it up now. Sorry for the all caps but I want to make a point.
ANY REPORTS OF HIGH WATER, NO MATTER HOW CREDIBLE, DESERVE INSTANT ATTENTION.
Ok, I feel better now.