Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin
Hurricane Rita landfall is anticipated within the next few hours. Strong winds and heavy rains are battering southern Louisiana and southeastern Texas.
MSM news crews are shouting over the howling winds as they foolishly describe blowing rain, swaying trees, and crashing waves through rain splattered camera lenses. It's a hurricane. We know these things already.
An 18 wheeler rig reportedly overturned on an I-10 bridge. The fate of the truck driver is unknown at this time. Reports of widespread power outages in Lake Charles. KPLC-TV Lake Charles local news has remarkably improvised their reporting from a remote location. They are taking calls from residents, NWS, and public utility representatives, and alerting residents to local conditions.
On the flip side, CNN announced to the world that law enforcement officers had evacuated from Port Arthur TX with the rest of the population. Engraved looter invitations would have been more elegant.
Godspeed to all those in the path of this storm.
The following links are self-updating:
Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Rita Forecast Track Archive
Forecast Models
Buoy Data Western Gulf of Mexico
Houston/Galveston/Beaumont/Lake Charles Wx Watches/Warnings
Jefferson Co TX NWS Weather
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Texas
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Louisiana
Hi Res Houston Flood Zone Map Slow load, great detail
Images:
Lake Charles Long Range Radar Still image, with loop link
Houston/Galveston Long Range Radar Still image, with loop link
Lake Charles Experimental Radar Outages and Delays May Occur
Storm Floater IR Loop
GOM WV Loop
GOM IR Still Image
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)
KHOU-TV/DT Houston
KPRC-TV/DT Houston
KTRK-TV/DT Houston
KTRH-AM Houston
KPLC-TV/DT Lake Charles/Lafayette
KSLA-TV/DT Shreveport
Additional Resources:
Hurricane Rita Freeper CHECK IN THREAD
FReeper Sign In Thread (LOCKED) Check in to let us know whether you are staying, going, and when you get there
FReepers Offering Lodging To Rita Evacuees People and/or Pet Friendly FReepers Offering Shelter
KHOU Houston
KTRK ABC News Houston
KPLC Lake Charles Evac Routes, news
KFDM Beaumont/Port Arthur News, evac info
Hurricane City
Wxnation Houston
Galveston Webcams
Golden Triangle Weather Page Provides Galveston Weather, Warnings, Radar, etc.
| Category | Wind Speed | Barometric Pressure | Storm Surge | Damage Potential |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical Depression |
< 39 mph < 34 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Tropical Storm |
39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts |
Minimal | ||
| Hurricane 1 (Weak) |
74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts |
28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more |
4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m |
Minimal damage to vegetation |
| Hurricane 2 (Moderate) |
96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts |
28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb |
6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m |
Moderate damage to houses |
| Hurricane 3 (Strong) |
111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts |
27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb |
9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m |
Extensive damage to small buildings |
| Hurricane 4 (Very strong) |
131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts |
27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb |
13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m |
Extreme structural damage |
| Hurricane 5 (Devastating) |
Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts |
Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb |
Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m |
Catastrophic building failures possible |
Previous Threads:
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part III
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm Rita
Tropical Depression 18
It depends; is it Wedgewood Wild Poppy?
I need to find some to finish out my pattern. :-)
what road are you looking for?
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We ought to ping him for all the good girly threads. he might like a new underpants thread.
I don't know her. But an odd thing happens sometimes when I read southern women funny books. They don't seem funny to me. I have to step back to appreciate the humor!!
Julia Reed? Love her!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1475817/posts
I don't know, I think maybe the detergent messes up the glaze. But my Mother told me that and I don't question it. She had rules you know.
As I recall, when dishwashers first came out they were notorious for breaking what they were supposed to be cleaning (poor temperature control, wildly flailing sprat arms, etc.) -- so the prevailing wisdom was to wash your expensive dishes (the china ware) by hand and only wash the day-to-day stuff in the infernal machine. That's my memory of it and I'm sticking to it. :O)
She didn't want to ask the Feds in before the storm because she felt it would make her look bad. That screams "misplaced priorities".
She admitted forgetting important things like asking Bush for the military. So, what more important things was she thinking about instead?
She let thirty thousand people go hungry and thirsty because she decided they needed to go someplace else, and clearly that was more important to her than basic survival for them.
When the levees broke and the city was filling up with water, she asked us all to pray, because at that point she had no other ideas of what to do and just naturally assumed that nobody else did either.
Then when the storm was over, she still refused outside help because she thought she'd get blamed for the mess.
It's not about the storm, or anybody else, it's all about Kathleen.
So now we write her a check for a quarter trillion bucks?
Okay, I am watching Blanco on CSPAN from today; did she really form a group called Family Recovery Group of Louisiana and ask Bush to funnel ALL "relief money" though them?
Is she nuts? Or is she trying to get that money in the hands of her people?
With Landriue in the fallback position, I don't see any choice but to either federalize the reconstruction, or else just not do it.
We look at what the money paid for before the storm, then again during the storm, and the people in charge there come up short.
Nothing has changed, they aren't going to turn into General Honre overnight.
They're in the way in a huge way and they have to go.
Good deal, let someone else have some rain for a change.
Just absolutely stunning.
That wrangler pic is art. Awesome.
now wait a Cotton picken minute here. There you go again . . . aren't there any sports threads or something around here?
You would think a hurricane thread would be safe for crying out loud. Manly things like death, destruction, floods, winds, daring rescues, oil slicks and sewage, fires and machinery, bridesmaids dresses.
She has that Boxer ability to instantly drop your jaw and drool on yourself before you can regain control.
Kathleen played a political game when people were going to die. She and Mary are not terribly bright. I suspect that when this started to come down, she got advice from some dem people and she was not clever enough to play the game.
And I still say, Blanco/Landrieu were thwarting Nagin because he is on their s@@@ list because he went off the plantation to be elected and he was exposing stuff in NO.
But I won't fight the battle for that point anymore.
Blanco and Landrieu were in way overe their heads, way over. They are dumb and venal. And they know what they did, look at their faces, they know they did wrong. Mary is twitching a mile a minute and her face in repose looks crushed. Blanco can barely keep it together, she is on the verge of tears constantly.
If you ever wanted to see a person who did wrong and knows it, look at those two women.
How many people are left in the shelters because of Katrina?
She wants people back, she wants to buy bus tickets home for people. She is approaching this like a social worker rather than a leader of a state. She is a ding bat.
Blog To Watch for Details About Getting Back Home
FYI,
"The Road Home
- What you need to know for a safe return"
Houston Chronicle Blog
http://blogs.chron.com/roadhome
: Once officials have given the OK to return to your community, let
: this blog be your guide home. We'll post information on road
: conditions and fuel availablity here. On the road and want to tell us
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She is on Geraldo saying that her evacuation plan -- planned a year in advance -- was executed as planned? It was grand and she watched it from helicopters?
A gas pipeline seems like a pretty easy fix, once you can get to it.
Not like oil where it can sludge up on you and clog big sections of the pipe when it isn't moving.That leaves us with X days shortfall, which can't be recovered easily, but the price bump would (assuming that the energy companies really price according to supply and demand) go away once the flow was fully established again end to end and everybody who needed gas was caught up.
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