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I was DEFINITELY WRONG ... Later pictures on the Weather Channel in the area of Clute, TX shows the Flares.

During the worst part of the Hurricane, the Flare was Horizontal or appeared to be HORIZONTAL, not with the flames going straight up, but sideways...

I guess if a FLARE may be away from anything that might blowup -- or at least it should be...

713 posted on 09/13/2008 7:46:41 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)

KATC-TV Channel 3 Lafayette, Louisiana Reported:

Storm Surge in Cameron Parish peaked this morning at 12 feet.

That exceeds the deadly storm of June, 1957 -- Hurricane Audry, which had a Storm Surge of 11 feet.

And it is only 3 feet under Hurricane Rita.

Considering how far away the eye hit from Cameron Parish, Louisiana -- it should give people an idea of how destructive this storm is...

We finally reached our peak for surge here in Lafayette, Louisiana, and the rains are tapering off, and the winds are (FINALLY) started to fade -- but consider we are over 200 miles from this storm, and it is blowing pretty good here...

And there are also reports that downtown Beaumont Texas is under 9 feet of water... (That was from Channel 11 KHOU in Houston)

729 posted on 09/13/2008 7:59:22 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)

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