[laz]

Hello everyone! I HATE Adelphia Cable in Miami! I lost my broadband connection shortly after 11 PM last night, and it didn't come back until now. I was nearly going out of my mind without FR during the approach and landfall. Thank God I'm back on now.

Did Rita really come in with 120 mph winds, or was she intensifying as she came in?

[steveegg]

Hello everyone! I HATE Adelphia Cable in Miami! I lost my broadband connection shortly after 11 PM last night, and it didn't come back until now. I was nearly going out of my mind without FR during the approach and landfall. Thank God I'm back on now.

Did Rita really come in with 120 mph winds, or was she intensifying as she came in?

Sounds like my connection yesterday about 4 am; lost both the broadband and the phone for better than an hour.

My mind's too full of mush to convert this vortex data message with an eye fix 5 minutes before landfall that found 111-knot (128 mph) flight-level winds 10 minutes before landfall into surface-level winds, but the pressure was measured at 937 mb (an increase) 5 minutes prior to landfall. I'd say it's safe to say she wasn't intensifying at landfall, but that she was still a Cat 3.