[Paradox]

FWIW, while channel surfing the guy from hurricanelive.com on CNN is saying that it looks like Rita may be heading for the TX/LA border

Historically speaking, storms like Rita have ended up tracking more east than the predictions. Some of the folks on Weatherunderground.com have predicted a TX/LA border landfall now for several days.

[OrangeDaisy]

Here's the historical track of all September storms passing within 300 miles of Rita. You can see that they rarely come into Texas.

http://maps.wunderground.com/data/images/at200518_climo.gif