Storms always go north and northwest when they hit land why don't the authorities send people south and west (except in Florida)?
I was listening to Joe Bastard-i (weather lord) last night and he was hedging his bets on Rita coming in within 25 miles north or south of Galveston, reaching the northern suburbs of Houston and then turning around and heading southwest. I was hearing earlier that the prevailing high air mass would be moving off to the east by today allowing the storm to start a more northerly track. I'm curious as to what he sees in the national weather scope to come to this conclusion. By the way, the majority of the tracks have the storm pushing in the opposite direction toward the north and northeast once it makes landfall.