[raygun]

Prayers throneward, in Jesus' name, concerning that. I lived through Allen in San Antonio in 1980. I don't even want to think about what's going on in Port Arthure right now. Just because Rita isn't as immanently powerfull, I respect nature in its magnificent fury.

[steveegg]

9 pm position update (take with the usual 6-nm-diameter circular error probability) -

ZCZC MIATCEAT3 ALL
TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM
HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE POSITION ESTIMATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
9 PM CDT FRI SEP 23 2005

AT 9 PM CDT...0200Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE RITA WAS LOCATED NEAR
LATITUDE 28.9 NORTH...LONGITUDE 93.1 WEST...OR ABOUT 70 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF SABINE PASS ALONG THE COAST AT THE BORDER BETWEEN TEXAS
AND LOUISIANA.

FORECASTER KNABB

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