To: LibFreeOrDie
God be praised, the damage isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I was bracing myself for the worst scenario, homes totally torn apart like matchsticks and water reaching almost roof tops.
To: RoseofTexas
I was bracing myself for the worst scenario, homes totally torn apart like matchsticks and water reaching almost roof tops. In some places, Rita's flooding is quite bad. However, we're not seeing homes reduced to matchsticks because the storm surge apparently rose rather gently, instead of coming in as a piled-up wall that smashed everything in its path. I imagine the difference is the result of Rita's winds being 20 mph less than Katrina's on landfall. Also, if I'm not mistaken, Rita started dropping from Cat 5 farther away from landfall than Katrina did.
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09/24/2005 11:20:54 PM PDT by
laz
(They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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