Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VIII

Category	Wind Speed	Barometric Pressure	Storm Surge	Damage Potential
Tropical Depression	< 39 mph < 34 kts			Minimal
Tropical Storm	39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts			Minimal
Hurricane 1 (Weak)	74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts	28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more	4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m	Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2 (Moderate)	96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts	28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb	6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m	Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3 (Strong)	111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts	27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb	9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m	Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4 (Very strong)	131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts	27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb	13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m	Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5 (Devastating)	Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts	Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb	Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m	Catastrophic building failures possible

Thanks but I am flighty.

I am hearing hysterical stories about people and their evacuees. Some are so funny. Imagine unrelated people, adults, all set in their ways, crammed into houses for weeks. And everyone cranky and tired.

I think a few of my folks followed that TN/MS trail as well in the late 1860's. Seems to have been a pretty popular route to central TX.

Lion, it's up already, see the link I just posted -- it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the previous map -- the loop's gone and continues northeast!

I think the whole south was moving in the late 1860s...between the homestead act and people who just wanted to get away and start fresh after the war, there was a lot of coming and going then...

We observe The Three Day Rule (aka The Fish Rule) at our house.

You will appreciate this. My 87-year old neighbor has been sick, so I offered to go over and help her. I was thinking she might need help with her laundry or something.

I spent three days last week polishing her silver!! It was getting tarnished and she couldn't stand the thought! I immediately thought of you! LOL!

If it's something you really want the only limit is the amount in the bank. (I've been know to set my limit too low....like the opening bid was higher than my "limit") OTOH I've set limits and gotten things for fractions of what they "book"...finding a buyer was once difficult, but I think since the internet has come along it may be easier.

What did you say the pattern is and I will see if I can find it in one of the pricing guides....

Wonderful story.

And the new dishwashers, you can raise the top drawer to accommodate oversized plates.

but don't put your Momma's china gift in the dishwasher.

I have an old china platter of my Grandmothers, cracked, and very old, not worth a dime. But she used it for turkeys and chickens. I use it for dinners when the kids are home. It is my favorite piece of china, but it reallly isn't china. And my other Grandmother's pickle dish.

Lately I am dragging out all those old keepsakes and using them.

Tropical Depression Rita Advisory Number 30
Statement as of 10:00 PM CDT on September 24, 2005

 
...Rita weakens to a depression but remains a heavy rain producer...

At 10 PM CDT...0300z...the center of Tropical Depression
Rita was located near latitude 33.0 north...longitude  93.9 west...
or about 40 miles north of Shreveport Louisiana.

 
The depression is moving toward the north near 10 mph.  A gradual
turn toward the northeast is expected during the next 24 hours.

 
Maximum sustained winds are near  35 mph... with higher gusts. 
Little change in strength is forecast during the next 24 hours.

 
Estimated minimum central pressure is  985 mb...29.09 inches.

The coastal storm surge flooding should continue to slowly subside
tonight and Sunday. However... tides along the southeast Louisiana
and Mississippi coasts in areas affected by Katrina could be 4 to 6
feet above normal and be accompanied by large waves... and
residents there are experiencing coastal flooding. Large swells
generated by Rita will likely continue to affect most portions of
the Gulf Coast.

 
Additional rainfall totals of 3 to 6 inches can be expected in
association with Rita across portions of the lower Mississippi
Valley.  Isolated maximum storm totals of 15 inches are possible.

 
Isolated tornadoes are possible tonight and Sunday to the east
of the track of Rita... over northern Louisiana... northern and
western Mississippi... Arkansas... and western Tennessee.

 
Repeating the 10 PM CDT position...33.0 N... 93.9 W.  Movement
toward...north near 10 mph.  Maximum sustained
winds... 35 mph.  Minimum central pressure... 985 mb.

 
This is the last public advisory issued by the National Hurricane
Center on Rita.  Future information on this system can be found in
public advisories issued by the Hydrometeorological Prediction
Center...under AWIPS header tcpat3 and WMO header wtnt33
kwnh...beginning at 4 am CDT Sunday.

 
Forecaster Knabb

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Check your freepmail for a link to search for pictures of flatware - shows prices of old silver, also.

Thanks for that....weather underground usually updates itself and yet you posted a weather underground plot. Its a strange cosmos.

I live in the upper area of Virginia on the map. We have been bone dry here for a month. Maybe we will now get a little rain.

LOL---and don't forget she has a moron of NO Mayor...to have to deal with.

Just today, he was calling out a "govt. official" for what he considered wrong information on when the people will be able to return to NO...and what damage is being done with the new rain..

He is in WAY over his head...and he gets so defensive, he is offensive.

Actually, I don't know which is the dumber, Blanco or Nagin, but considering she is the Governor...she is more in the line of fire...by US..not the MSM, unfortunately.

But Howl, we had to suspend that rule for the evacuees.

So true. I really treasure my great-grandparents stories of covered wagons and run ins with outlaws. And my grandparents stories of turn of the century life in Central TX. It's an amazing legacy.

Are you free anytime soon?

I need help here.

As I've been saying (for days, but particularly today):
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Posted by AFPhys to jeffers
On News/Activism ^ 09/24/2005 2:15:36 PM EDT · 225 of 1,083

I've seen the 360º predictions on some of those models. I simply don't believe them.

My : I believe they are acting like early "computer chess" programs which, in unclear positions, randomly moved their king back and forth. The lack of strong steering currents has hold of their logic now, but the GFS seems less prone to that. For that reason, I believe the GFS since more (not all) history supports that.

(I certainly had to use "I believe" a whole bunch in that paragraph, didn't I? ...LOL)
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These poor models just don't know how to behave when their input conditions are "weak", and they do random oscillations that result in things like loops, that are actually very rare.

Greetings all

I just checked in to see how the thread was going. I was up last night talking to you fine folks about the storm, Battlestar Galactica, ghosts in New Orleans, Panthers loose in Galveston and the possibility that Shep might be decapitated by a flying sign on live TV.

How did all that work out anyway?

How many of you woke up with a hangover from the Shepherd Smith drinking game? (Every time he loses his hat, you take a drink.)

Sometimes FR makes the day worthwhile. And it's all about you folks.

Hmmmm Is it possible that Blank-one was set up so Landrieu Jr. can get in a better position to be Governor?.....Naw! Too obvious! ;^)

We just said good night to our neighbors that had been one of the cars in the Great Evacuation. We made fajitas and I managed to put together a decent black bean salad. And of course, we polished off about 3 margaritas each.

I'm going to sleep good tonight. =)

We used paper plates with my Southern Living flatware. The right flatware will make a dogbowl fit for a king. LOL.

We are doing okay.

Do you have a flatware story? Pattern? do you know what flatware is?