Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VI

NHC - NOAA ^ | 23 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[jpsb]

1) mainland, San Leon
2) Dirt here is 12', if I go to my neigbors house it's 3 stories, my house is only one.

[Lazamataz]

Did I turn out to be wrong?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gulf Coast tides are not 3-4 feet: that's more like the size you see on the Atlantic Coast near Norflok and the entrance to the Chesapeake. (12-18" up at the turning basin of the ship channel as I recall.)

[WFTR]

In Gonzales, Louisiana, just southeast of Baton Rouge, we're getting tropical storm force winds and some strong rain. I can hear thunder right now. I've heard a few gusts that were similar to those that I heard during Katrina. At that time, we had pretty steady winds of about 35 mph and gusts to 70 mph. I'd guess that we're getting gusts in the 50 to 60 range today. We've already had more rain than we had during all of Katrina, but my front yard hasn't flooded at all. I'm mostly thankful to have power right now and hope that we'll avoid the outage that we had during Katrina. Being on the east side of the storm isn't good, but I'm far enough east and far enough inland not to be in any danger. Again, those are facts for which I'm thankful. We've had a few tornado warnings in the parish, but none have been close to my home. Right now, we are clear of both watches and warnings. Here's offering best hopes and wishes to those to the west of us.

Bill

[American72]

Mayor of Houston is a Dem, although our elections are supposedly "non-partisan" - you don't run as a "Dem" or a "Repub" but everyone just knows who you belong to anyway.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Tom DeLay schooled the press. He told them quite clearly that the local and county agencies are the first responders and that FEMA is a coordinating agency. We are not to expect FEMA or the feds as a first responder.

[dirtboy]

Yep. If it were a bit further north, it would stretch from NOLA to Houston.

[Eaker]

If every weapon is loaded how do you clean them.

I know when a weapon is loaded and I don't clean loaded weapons. I unload them first.

Then they are unloaded.

There might be other threads on knitting or bleaching hair where you have more expertise.

[kassie]

I completely agree with your thoughts.

[dirtboy]

Yeah, I looked up normal high tide for Sabine Pass tomorrow morning and it was 2.1 feet.

[jpsb]

thx, did a drive to check things out further inland, winds not bad yet inland, funny what a difference a block or two makes, blowing like hell here, but much lighter a block or two inland.

[Michael Goldsberry]

I've adjusted Grandpa's barometer 24 points upwards per data collected on this thread. Now reading 1,003mb... and falling.

;)

[DallasMike]

The storm is projected to be around Texarkana on Sunday. And Monday. And Tuesday. And Wednesday.

We're actually hoping here in Dallas that it will break the hot spell and give us some rain. 20 inches of rain would not be good, but we would all love, say, 6 inches spread out over 3 days.

 

[oceanview]

the last hour jog it makes before landfall will determine that. its going to be close for port arthur/beaumont.

[kassie]

Sugar Land is not turing off the water???

I sure hope not and if they do, I would hope they'd give us some warning.

[RDTF]

Pokay?

[Eaker]

Only 28? Poser. :)

LOL!!!

Slim, yer a nut!

[steveegg]

Don't know of any state that has other than a fixed gas tax. Higher prices mean somewhat fewer gallons sold and less gas tax.

Check this chart. Kentucky uses a percentage as its tax; California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan all charge sales taxes; Connecticut has a gross receipts earnings tax based on a percentage; New York has a complicated formula that includes a few percentages, and Virginia adds a percentage-based wholesale tax.

[Dog]

Kassie ....fill up the tub and everything that will hold water.

[Fritzy]

Thanks for the come back... terrific! Frankly, I am SO impressed with the Texas FRiends on this thread.. strong, powerful, caring, visionary Texans... from what I have observed over the past three days... (traffic jams..leadership responses ..etc).. there is a sense of pride and controlled efforts that seems to be a Texan Trademark... Wish LA could take a page from this type of citizenship...

I do look forward to spending a few weeks to get my sea legs in the Livingston area... then we will make our decision... appreciate your perspective..

More later...