Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part V

NHC - NOAA ^ | 22 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[No Blue States]

Thanks for the compliment, but im mostly stingy and selfish.
I dont know what came over me. ;)

[AliVeritas]

You guys watching the conf. on helicopter rescue in TX?
Center Channel
http://www.weatherserver.net/ritavideotexas.htm

[laz]

Guy in the hat and tight tee shirt on TWT just said that in Port Arthur, they picked people up in busses. Then they drove them to AF C130's (cargo planes) and just drove the busses in! Can you imagine being a passenger on those busses and riding into the cargo hold of a C130?

Cool!

But I expect this during a press conference:

Reporter: Why wasn't this done in New Orleans before Katrina?
General Honore: You are stuck on stupid!

[dixie sass]

Things are okay here. I can't believe how far out the bands of this storm extend. We had a tropical downpour yesterday afternoon. When you looked at the radar it was one of the outer arms of Rita.

Hope that y'all get some rain soon. My Aunt in Western PA is in the same fix as you. Keeping my fingers crossed that y'all get some rain.

[blam]

"Privately, ReporterDude says officials tell him they don't know how levees will hold up."

My expectation is that NO will reflood if the storm hits Beaumont or further east. They'll get the Mobile Bay effect that we got during Katrina. The water was pushed up the bay by south winds and flooded the entire downtown area.

[dixie sass]

Another levee breach in NO.

[Sooner Gal]

You said:

{Dog Gone is}West, out I-10 around the Katy area. He'll be okay if it hits around Beaumont.

I say:

Thanks for replying. I'm riding it out in the area of 290 and Barker Cypress and it made me a bit nervous that his entire neighborhood had evacuated. (Mine hasn't)

[GummyIII]

Howdy, neighbor...and dry it is.

[AppyPappy]

I'm waiting for the next tracking map but I bet it tracks a little more east.

[ElisabethInCincy]

Question: The radar they are showing on all news channels, There is purple colors in the center.. They disappear then come back and grow larger what does that mean ?....

[Spktyr]

45 is open again and moving.

[steveegg]

New Vortex Data Message to chew over while we wait for the 10 am slew of updates - Eye fix at 9:10 am (previous was at 6:43 am) - pressure up 2 mb to 929 mb, max flight-level wind down 3 knots to 126 knots in the NE quad -

043 
URNT12 KNHC 231433
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 23/14:10:10Z
B. 27 deg 14 min N
  091 deg 48 min W
C. 700 mb 2488 m
D. 75  kt
E. 237 deg 027 nm
F. 322 deg 111 kt
G. 237 deg 014 nm
H.         929 mb
I.  12 C/ 3048 m
J.  18 C/ 3043 m
K.  14 C/ NA
L. CLOSED
M. C28
N. 12345/ 7
O. 0.02 / 2  nm
P. AF307 2118A RITA         OB 29
MAX FL WIND 123 KT NE QUAD 11:48:40 Z
MAX FL TEMP 19 C, 238 / 8NM
EYEWALL THIN SE THRU SSW.

Other significant changes in the 2:27 since the last vortex:

- Movement 9 minutes north, 21 minutes west
- Eye now circular and 28 nm wide

[bwteim]

On 'bright side', according to one science guy, rain would help with pollution clean off of streets...

[LA Woman3]

WBRZ TV station in Baton Rouge reported the water is waist high....

[Strategerist]

I'm waiting for the next tracking map but I bet it tracks a little more east.

Yet another long westward wobble the last couple of hours, actually. You likely won't see the forecast track moved at all.

[No Blue States]

I35 can really back up at Hillboro before the split to FW and Dallas even on a holiday weekend, once north of there its usually much better.

[dfwgator]

according to one science guy, rain would help with pollution clean off of streets...

Was his name Travis Bickle? :)

[OleMissRebelYell]

Okay; who wants to start a Stephanie Abrams fan club? ;-)

I'm in!!!

[bwteim]

On the dismal side, no matter how you slice it, at the individual level, Rita, like Katrina, has s&*t written all over it.