To: aberaussie; Alas Babylon!; Alia; alnick; Amelia; asp1; AntiGuv; Bahbah; balrog666; blam; Blennos; ..
Hurricane Rita due to make landfall in hours.
Movement toward...northwest near 12 mph. Maximum sustained winds...120 mph. Minimum central pressure... 931 mb.
18 posted on
09/23/2005 8:04:56 PM PDT by
NautiNurse
(The task before us is enormous, but so is the heart of America.)
To: NautiNurse
33 posted on
09/23/2005 8:05:50 PM PDT by
Alia
To: NautiNurse
p.s. I finished Isaac's Storm. I'm breathing with this storm, and with the people caught in it; dead or alive. The surge is what gets me. What it's like to have utter devastation.. and you surviving it, in surge, in winds, with debris, with pelting rains resembling buckshot to the skin.... and I'm praying for these folks. Our neighbors. I'm not giving anything away by telling you that one character survived, after being taken "down below" the surge by falling rafters by floating on a wall which had blown off. Some other folks in a lounge were sucked out of the room when their big bay window exploded.
65 posted on
09/23/2005 8:09:36 PM PDT by
Alia
To: NautiNurse
439 posted on
09/23/2005 8:46:51 PM PDT by
GOPJ
(When incentives are switched, patterns change. Until then, it's same old, same old.)
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