Rick 'Extremely Dangerous' Category 5 Hurricane

Yahoo News - Accuweather ^ | 10-17-2009 | Elliot Abrams

[blam]

AP

[NautiNurse]

East Pacific (Western Hemisphere), East of the Pacific International Dateline storms are called Hurricanes.

[blam]

My son lives in LA...he was visiting me here when Katrina hit. I expect he’s keeping an interested eye on this one.

[Slicksadick]

When Rick turns north, as it arcs towards Baja, It will generate some huge swells destined for south facing beachs in socal.

[Elle Bee]

God Bless them

That is a storm

Looks like Andrew

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[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

AFAICS, this "Hurricane" is in the Pacific.

Cyclonic storms in the Atlantic OR the eastern Pacific are hurricanes. In the western Pacific they are typhoons. In the Indian Ocean they are just cyclones.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqbWnmENCng&feature=related

surfer makes a really good drop at the Wedge at the 2:40 mark of the above video. The Wedge - home to many a broken collar bone, back, or even neck...

[lonestar]

Thankfully we had a quiet hurricane season in the gulf!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Isn’t there a chance that Rick might possibly get to Texas as a tropical storm?

[NautiNurse]

Highly unlikely a tropical storm would be intact after traveling 400+ miles inland to West Texas.

[SaraJohnson]

Anything is possible with a storm that big and close to Texas. We can use some rain but I hope none of the bad winds come over.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Wasn’t Ike still dangerous when it got to the midwest, Quebec, and even Iceland (according to wiki), well over 400 miles from Galveston?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Joe Bastardi on FOX just said that Rick will likely be hitting south Texas on Thursday, then getting into the southeast US by the weekend. He also said it might hit Cabo as a cat 3!! Definitely need to keep a lookout on this one.

[NautiNurse]

Ike was extratropical when it reached Arkansas. You asked if Hurricane Rick would reach Texas as a Tropical Storm. I stand by my reply.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You are right. My bad!

[SaraJohnson]

Oh crud.

[prairiebreeze]

Okey-doke, thanks.

[rodguy911]

rumors of rick re -emerging are already hitting S.fla.

[rodguy911]

Bastardi is usually an idiot.

[who knows what evil?]

Joe is just a bit of a drama queen...

[alancarp]

Joe B’s deal is that he will err on the side of the worst-case scenario for the sake of those in harm’s way. He doesn’t apoligize for that, nor should he.