To: abb; abbi_normal_2; aberaussie; alancarp; Alas Babylon!; Alia; Alice in Wonderland; ...
Category 5 Hurricane Rick intensified in dramatic fashion yesterday into
the second most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Eastern Pacific.
The storm had sustained winds of 180 mph this morning, 906 mb. Current
wind speed ~160 mph, 921 mb. Hurricane force winds extend 60 miles
from the center of the storm.
Hurricane Rick is expected to decrease in strength well before
anticipated landfall near the southern Baja Peninsula Tues/Wed.
On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here--> 
17 posted on
10/18/2009 1:56:29 PM PDT by
NautiNurse
(Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
To: NautiNurse
Hey NN.
"...the second most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Eastern Pacific."
Wow.
18 posted on
10/18/2009 2:09:27 PM PDT by
blam
To: NautiNurse
Holy moly! That’s an ugly looking ‘cane....or isn’t it a typhoon??
20 posted on
10/18/2009 2:16:27 PM PDT by
prairiebreeze
(Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.)
To: NautiNurse
God Bless them
That is a storm
Looks like Andrew
.
24 posted on
10/18/2009 2:53:31 PM PDT by
Elle Bee
To: NautiNurse
Thankfully we had a quiet hurricane season in the gulf!
27 posted on
10/18/2009 3:13:11 PM PDT by
lonestar
(Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
To: NautiNurse; SaraJohnson
Isn’t there a chance that Rick might possibly get to Texas as a tropical storm?
28 posted on
10/18/2009 3:17:09 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(He said red, yellow, black or white, All are equal in his sight, Mmm, mmm, mm!, Barack Hussein Obama)
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