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Posted on 09/21/2005 1:36:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Well, it's a truism that the skipper is responsible for everything that happens aboard his ship, his fault or no.
Although, like Aubrey in Master and Commander, I think that our presidents have long exceeded their orders.
OTOH, I was just kind of kidding about the whole Bush's fault thing.
LOL! I've made mistakes before and will make them again. I'm distracted worrying about my dad and numerous other relatives in the Dallas/Ft Worth Beaumont area...my BIL lives outside Huntington and should - I hope - be ok. First time I've really had an excuse ;-)
The ridge is huge and strong...Rita is moving along the forecast track, and it isn't going to push the ridge anywhere. Rita will turn NW and eventually N when the ridge moves east
Fox is wrong.
Are you watching Channel 2? Traffic is JAMMED. Cell phones are overwhelmed. Another reason to get your ham radio license!
I'm no expert, but I suspect the high air temperatures in the area are helping to feed her.
This following is from the NHC 4 pm conference call, which they do before writing up the discussion that comes out at 5 pm
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Disclaimer: This data is preliminary. Individuals should consult the official forecast issued at 5 PM EDT for OFFICIAL data and warnings.
Initial intensity looks to be set at 145 knots... based on a 161kt FL wind, and a 906mb pressure (yes 906). The plane is going back in to take another reading as we speak. This easily makes Rita a Category 5. Track basically unchanged.... and landfall intensity in the vicinity of 125 knots. Large swath of watches to be issued in this advisory. They look to hold it as a cat 5 for at least another 12 hours over the very warm loop current and ideal environment.
Is Whorealdo in Galveston yet? His makeup once again will be flowing down his face like Tammy Faye's before the week is out.
Thanks. Now the question is why the NHC isn't going with that number.
--Looks like I picked a bad week to give up cough syrup.
What happened? Rita got bigger. And started accelerating.
If the storm sticks to its projected path, it should miss almost all of them. I think there may be one refinery in the path of the storm. The rest are either well to the northeast Pasadena/Deer Park and Golden Triangle) or to the south. (Corpus area).
Disclaimer: This data is preliminary. Individuals should consult the official forecast issued at 5 PM EDT for OFFICIAL data and warnings.
I don't know if it's high use in your area or Sprint just being Sprint but my cell phone acting up too.
Generally overstated. Often storms are better behaved trackwise and more easily predictable the stronger they are. Katrina was one of the most predictable storms ever once it reached Cat 3 through Cat 5.
That answers my question. Another 2 mb drop. What was Katrina's minimum again?
When I was home for lunch I was watching FoxNews. They had one of their reporters on the phone talking about how they were going to stay at a hotel on Seawall Blvd (??) until mandatory evactuations were put into effect and the hotel closed. Now they have to find lodging elsewhere.
Because of the coverage during the landfall in N.O., a lot of reporters probably figured they can hack it, what they don't realize is that ground zero in MS, nobody was on the air during the landfall.
I will say I kind of like the Weather Channel guys though, they tell it like it is and I feel like they're not trying to impress anyone.
Yes. I tend to agree with Jay Leno, whom I do not like. But he said "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegience?"
Are you listening to the lady (with kids in background) in DFW who is not leaving cause her hubby (cop) has to go to work at 6 p.m.? She was crying. Now that's a cop.
Makes me disgusted that so many NO cops left; I think of that cop they interviewed saying he had a choice to make and he left with his family... wonder if his wife and kids were stuck there and he wasn't around would he respect someone leaving and not trying to save her?
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