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Posted on 09/18/2005 1:56:41 PM PDT by NautiNurse
ping
Check out the projected path.
When? Geologically soon.
Sometime in the next 50-100,000 years, I suspect. Your chances of being hit by one or more drunken drivers are infinitely more likely.
Now, back to Rita...
(in post #553)
That's just absurd. It may be Cat 2 by the time it hits Key West.
With nothing but hot water and no unfavorable winds after it enters the gulf, there's absolutely no reason to think it would hit the coast as a Cat 1 storm.
That's truly odd, as NHC has landfall in Texas at Cat 3 and it very easily could be higher than that.
I lived at El Dorado Way when Alicia came through. I'd never do that again.
Thanks for the link, my Bar manager just suggested we plan on having a hurricane party thrusday or friday, LOL, I told her I'd be closing the bar Thrusday day if Rita is still heading this way.
Bill White. Used to be the head of the Texas Dems.
Start at category 1 or 2, then up to Cat 3 to give recalcitrants an extra reason to get up and out?
My thoughts too, local Fox 26, usually very good on local weather.
Hurricane Alicia formed in the Gulf of Mexico in August 1983. It quickly strengthened to a Category Three storm, and made landfall in Galveston, Texas on August 18. The storm moved northward, its eye passing over Houston. That city suffered millions of dollars in damage, including thousands of shattered glass panes from downtown skyscrapers. In the end, Alicia killed 22 people and caused $2 billion in damage ($3.4 billion in 2000 dollars).
Alicia was the first storm for which the National Hurricane Center issued landfall probabilities.
We live in Conroe, Texas, about 80 miles north of Galveston. We got tornados, wind and rain from Alicia. Were without power for 6 days. Alicia spawned over 20 reported tornados.
Just the really low lying areas. People still remember TS Allison, even though that was an anomaly.
It's been 23 years since a direct hit from a Hurricane. We're overdue.
I would like a weekend in the hill country but since we would have to stay a hotel the 3 dogs would be a problem. I wouldn't leave my best friends at the kennel to go through the storm alone. I guess we would have been one of those families who refused to evacuate NO because we wouldn't have left our dogs.
Thank you NautiNurse. jpsb and others along the TX coast, post #732 has evacuation maps.
I tried the "no no no" tantrum earlier. It didn't work.
BTW, anyone know the best tape to use on windows?
Long story, but some of the windows on my property can't be easily boarded up.
This from Collier County EM
Naples
Closest Point of Approach 104 miles
Maximum Winds/Gusts Expected 50/62 mph
Est. Time for 39 mph winds arrival/depart
Tue-1400/Wed-0400
Est. Time for Maximum winds arrival
Tue/2000 hrs
Forecast Rainfall (3-day total)
3.25”
none. it's a waste of time and tape and won't do any good.
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