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Posted on 09/22/2005 3:25:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse
No..he's full of it. He was saying that FLorida never waits that long to make all lanes go northbound...he was critizicing Texas waiting so long to do it. I told him it never happened ...YET.
He also ranted about how $3.00 gas would take $99 oil barrel prices, so he "knew" we were being gauged. Completely clueless about refinery shutdowns and gas shortages, or about the fact that once the shortage cleared up prices largely dropped back to around $2.60, which was about right for $66/barrel oil, given the gas taxes.
Way cool stuff on that NASA site. Nice SST graphic at the end of the page too.
If Rita hits Houston, do you have any idea the economic impact it will have on this country? NO is already pretty trashed, and Rita would have much less devasating effects if it hit NO and not Houston.
I'm not being insensitive...I'm being a realist. This storm is not going to go away...it is going to hit someone on the Gulf coast. Looking at the big picture, it would be better if it hit a city that is already evac'd, as opposed to a metropolis.
Good luck and patience!
See, them bullets was a good wedding gift after all!
Just heard a guy talking on a radio station from NO say that it took him 5 hours to go from Baytown(Tx) to Beaumont(Tx), normally about a one hour drive on I-10. He moved his family from Baytown to Beaumont.
We see this a lot in Atlanta because most people "ain't from around here." They move here as short term corporate transfers, and if the interstates back up they have no idea what to do. The radio stations try to help, but if you don't know the names of the back roads it isn't much help.
We usually take to the back roads when we're visiting family on big holidays and the interstates back up. It usually works pretty well.
That lasts about 20 minutes after the power goes out.
That was in NOLA - but along the Gulf Coast, the surge was higher than Camille's, and for a much longer stretch.
For those of you who are not familiar with HOUSTON. Their traffic is always bad.. this is just extra bad... but on 45 the contra is open at 1488- 125 miles to Buffalo TX
Dude! Awesome images. Thanks
For the detail oriented, Rita is 48.7 miles NE of yesterday's 1600 (4pm CDT) forecast track, with predicted landfall 109 miles NE of the 1600 track.
That's less than a third of the turn it would need to make to hit NOLA head on.
He better not bother unpacking.
Suggest you stop digging.
NOLA track from satellite shows west side shear wall and gradual NNW trend developing. Storms seek course of least resistance. Katrina greased NOLA and Rita may follow the grove. Purley deductive speculation from an interested observer.
Thanks for the link. Fascinating animations of the insides.
They've set up I-16 in GA for contraflow with gates at all the ramps. It seems to work pretty well.
Wind Direction (WDIR): | NNE ( 30 deg true ) |
Wind Speed (WSPD): | 46.6 kts |
Wind Gust (GST): | 60.2 kts |
Wave Height (WVHT): | 34.1 ft |
Dominant Wave Period (DPD): | 15 sec |
Average Period (APD): | 10.4 sec |
Mean Wave Direction (MWDIR): | E ( 97 deg true ) |
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): | 29.36 in |
Air Temperature (ATMP): | 79.0 °F |
Water Temperature (WTMP): | 84.4 °F |
TIME (CDT) |
WDIR | WSPD |
---|---|---|
8:50 am | NNE ( 30 deg ) | 45.6 kts |
8:40 am | NNE ( 31 deg ) | 42.9 kts |
8:30 am | NNE ( 30 deg ) | 43.5 kts |
8:20 am | NNE ( 29 deg ) | 45.8 kts |
8:10 am | NNE ( 26 deg ) | 44.9 kts |
8:00 am | NNE ( 22 deg ) | 43.5 kts |
My niece in Tomball told me last night that she was filling and freezing zip-lock bags of water.
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