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Posted on 09/22/2005 5:44:09 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Extremely dangerous Category Four Hurricane Rita continues to move toward landfall along the northwest Gulf of Mexico shoreline. Mandatory and voluntary evacuations continue across Texas and Louisiana coastal areas. Lake Charles LA is providing evacuations by bus for residents who have no transportation.
Traffic gridlock in the greater Houston area was compounded by gasoline stations without fuel, long lines at those stations still carrying fuel, and record breaking temperatures on the first day of autumn.
Offshore drilling platforms and rigs, as well as oil refineries, petrochemical and natural gas plants are in the path of the storm. Wave heights recorded by buoy have exceeded 38 feet. The refineries threatened by Hurricane Rita are on higher ground than those affected by flooding from Katrina. As a result, speculation abounds regarding future prices for winter heating fuel and gasoline.
The following links are self-updating:
Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Rita Forecast Track Archive
Forecast Models
Buoy Data Western Gulf of Mexico
Houston/Galveston/Beaumont/Lake Charles Wx Watches/Warnings
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Texas
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Louisiana
Hi Res Houston Flood Zone Map Slow load, great detail
Images:
Storm Floater IR Loop
GOM WV Loop
GOM IR Still Image
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)
KPRC-TV/DT Houston - KPRC-TV/DT Houston - http://mfile.akamai.com/12944/live/reflector:38616.asx
KPLC-TV Lake Charles KPLC Streaming
KHOU-TV/DT Houston: mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_khou
WWLTV NOLA
Additional Resources:
FReeper Sign In Thread Check in to let us know whether you are staying, going, and when you get there
FReepers Offering Lodging To Rita Evacuees People and/or Pet Friendly FReepers Offering Shelter
Coastal TX Evacuation Maps
Beaumont TX evac Routes
Lake Charles/Southwest LA Evacuation Map
KHOU Houston
KTRK ABC News Houston
KPLC Lake Charles Evac Routes, news
KFDM Beaumont/Port Arthur News, evac info
Hurricane City
Wxnation Houston
Galveston Webcams
Golden Triangle Weather Page Provides Galveston Weather, Warnings, Radar, etc.
Category | Wind Speed | Barometric Pressure | Storm Surge | Damage Potential |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tropical Depression |
< 39 mph < 34 kts |
Minimal | ||
Tropical Storm |
39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts |
Minimal | ||
Hurricane 1 (Weak) |
74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts |
28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more |
4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m |
Minimal damage to vegetation |
Hurricane 2 (Moderate) |
96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts |
28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb |
6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m |
Moderate damage to houses |
Hurricane 3 (Strong) |
111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts |
27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb |
9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m |
Extensive damage to small buildings |
Hurricane 4 (Very strong) |
131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts |
27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb |
13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m |
Extreme structural damage |
Hurricane 5 (Devastating) |
Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts |
Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb |
Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m |
Catastrophic building failures possible |
Previous Threads:
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part III
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm Rita
Tropical Depression 18
Someone else just posted that it appears Phillipe is dying out.
I can't even contemplate what would happen if they tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people out of Tidewater with a major hurricane bearing down. There's exactly ONE Interstate highway coming out of there (I-64) and in order to get to it from anywhere east or southeast of Newport News/Hampton, you have to cross at least one bridge-tunnel, either the Hampton Roads or the Monitor-Merrimac. It would be a nightmare.
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It's raised about three feet about the ground about six inches from a bay window. Normally Canna plants grow there, and it has to be raised or it wouldn't provide enough coverage for the bed.
It's pvc pipe and flexible enough to repeatedly batter the glass in the winds I'm expecting.
After trying the first solution, DUCT TAPE!, I decided that wasn't going to work. I didn't want to cut the sprinkler off, so I braced a very heavy concrete bench seat between it and the window. I'm good to go on that now. It's better than a plywood solution which is good since I have none, lol.
Which chart? I see nothing of the sort on the NHC forecast page or on Wunderground. Forecasts call for it to either be torn apart or to become extratropical.
The 11 am discussion for Philippe has it absorbed and dissipated into a larger non-tropical cyclonic circulation in the next 24 hours. Good news for the US, not so good for Bermuda, which has a tropical storm warning up.
NHC has the landfall closer to the TX/LA border. Bastardi just won't let go of his landfall call, despite the mounting evidence to the contrary.
Stay safe, LA Woman3!
File that under "silver lining."
I think I solved it before I read your solution, dirtboy, but I think I will add that to the mix. After I finish filling bathtubs, etc., I'm going to run out of further preps to do, so I might as well make the current ones even better.
Phillipe jealous of all the attention that Rita is getting?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/144629.shtml?5day
And here's some FINE FINE advice from Blanco:
As for those who refuse to leave, Gov. Kathleen Blanco advised: "Perhaps they should write their Social Security numbers on their arms with indelible ink."
Buwahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I have never understood the fascination with bottle water. All us old Boy Scouts know to fill up 5 gallon jugs with good ole chlorinated water.
Plenty of live coverage on Fox now of water GUSHING over the Industrial Canal levee/wall break - refilling the 9th Ward with water. Let's call a breach a breach. What else can you call it?
THANKS BE TO GOD--literally! Am also praying very hard to God to send MIGHTY angels to keep the fury of this storm away from Galveston and Houston! And to keep all the Freepers in the path of the storm "safe and secure from all alarms".
But I don't want the foam to batter the window for the 10 hours of wind we're going to get.
Don't worry. We'll get that sucker where he won't even consider moving!
FNC showing levees breaching in new orleans.
It's not fay-uh! We're not getting the attention we deserve!
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