[NautiNurse]

PLEASE avoid hot linking (posting) graphics from weather sites to this thread due to high traffic. No animated graphics, webcams, radar, satellite images etc. Use links to the host site..

Use the links at the top of the thread. It took time to put all of them up there...

[NautiNurse]

New Thread

[Sammie42]

Thanks for the threads, wow got home just in time to catch the new one !

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It appears the eyewall has reformed. Now what?

[michigander]

Still dry here...

[texianyankee]

Using intellicast, I can pick up the eye of Rita.... click the link below for the radar loop:

Rita

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ch.11's Dr. Frank:

No sign yet of a turn further to the north, current track brings the eye over or just east of Galveston. May indeed come in at Galveston instead of Port Arthur. NHC is still calling for a High Island landfall, around 2am.

Galveston news conference:

If a High Island hit, Galveston is expecting 75-90mph winds, the worst likely from 8pm-midnight. 7' surge level on the island.

[Fawn]

There was no need to call me names and be rude...I simply asked when a new thread was to be started....

[Shazolene]

Evacuations are, by their nature, difficult and disruptive at best. It does sound like TX made some mistakes with this one, even with the example of Katrina right in front of them! (For example, waiting all night before reversing direction on the main road out of town, closing auxiliary roads, etc.)

This is why govt's hesitate to order them, and why people hesitate to obey the order. Evacuations are not to be taken on lightly.

Especially in areas that experience lots of hurricanes, we need to weigh the specifics of each situation, and order/suggest evacuation only when warranted. Otherwise people start 'turning off' the evacuation notices!

Prayers to all.

[cynicalman]

Dangerous Hurricane Rita is expected to make landfall in the northeast Gulf of Mexico within 24 hours. Tornados have spawned in Louisiana. Water is filling the Ninth Ward of New Orleans again. A bus carrying elderly evacuees was gutted by fire this morning outside Dallas, with multiple fatalities. Television crews have positioned their hurricane reporters throughout the region to attain maximum drama effects. Whoooooa.

Car 54 where are you!!

[hummingbird]

Oh my...they've brought Dan Rather out to reminisce about Carla.

[Jeff Head]

The latest IR loop looks to have a pretty significant turn to the NNE. Perhpas it is just a wobble, but it looks like a turn.

[Unknown Freeper]

Thanks for the new thread, Nurse. I hope you get a break today before things turn past ugly tonight.

[Unknown Freeper]

Friday mid-day thread

[squarebarb]

Thank you, NN!

[steveegg]

Thanks again.

Quickie recap for those just tuning back in - As of 10 am CDT -

- A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Port O'Connor, Texas to Morgan City, Louisiana
- Tropical Storm Warnings extend from Morgan City east to the Louisiana/Mississippi state line (includes New Orleans) and from Port O'Connor to Port Aransas, Texas.
- A Tornado Watch is in effect from coastal Alabama west through south-central Louisiana through 6 pm CDT
- Rita was centered near 27.4 north/91.9 west, about 220 miles southeast of Galveston and 210 miles southeast of Port Arthur.
- Movement was toward the northwest near 10 mph and is expected to continue the next 24 hours. Landfall is anticipated early Saturday on the upper Texas/southwest Louisiana coastline.
- Maximum sustained winds were near 135 mph (the border between a Category 4 and Category 3), and while slight weakening is possible, Rita will likely come ashore as a major hurricane. Hurricane force winds extended outward up to 85 miles and tropical storm force winds extended outward up to 205 miles. Pressure was 929 mb.

[Eaker]

We really appreciate what you are doing here. A lot!

We are starting to move stuff inside The Compound.

It is getting windy.

I gotta get up and get to work as my troops realized that I ain't really saving the world on the Internet!

I sure hope nobody pings TheMom to this thread! She is a real task master!

[The KG9 Kid]

"See, I can't get past that bleach thing. They say to add bleach to the water and that just freaks me out."

Make lemonade with the water you plan to drink. You'll never know about the Chlorine.

[i_dont_chat]

latest Rita news ping

[prairiebreeze]

Thank you for the thread and for your efforts in posting it.

[blam]

I was present at the Grand Opening of Jack's. I'm suprised it's still open.