The Hurricane Rita Thread

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: arcas
7:50pm EDT NOAA interrim update: pressure continues to drop. The hurricane hunter aircraft failed to drop the dropsone in the exact center of the storm but still measured a minimum pressure of 899mb. NOAA is estimating the pressure to actually be 898mb. This makes Rita the 3rd most intense atlantic storm on record. Additional strengthening is forecast over the next 12 hours.

Someone is going to get owned

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: arcas
7:50pm EDT NOAA interrim update: pressure continues to drop. The hurricane hunter aircraft failed to drop the dropsone in the exact center of the storm but still measured a minimum pressure of 899mb. NOAA is estimating the pressure to actually be 898mb. This makes Rita the 3rd most intense atlantic storm on record. Additional strengthening is forecast over the next 12 hours.

Someone is going to get owned

me

 

[MetalMat]

Sorry Houston I was born there so I have some ties to the place.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: AbsolutZero

Originally posted by: skyking
regarding the nuclear plant:
Link from the power plant website.
At 4' thick, I suspect the containment structure is proof to either hurricanes or tornadoes. I worry about earthquakes with those things, myself.

I see. It worried me when I saw an operational nuclear power plant 5 miles from the gulf coast. Hopefully its enough for a 15 ft storm surge.

Those guys with the assault rifles will also be taking out any Al Queda post-Rita operatives.

The containment building is several feet of steel reinforced concrete and a six inch steel shell behind that.

It will hold.

If Rita hits a bullseye on that site there is no way the containment building will hold.

My friends house where there is nothing but a slab left in Waveland Misssissippi, has a tree in the front yard with water line 30 feet high.

Your friends(???) house wasn't made of concrete. You said it yourself, the only thing left was the concrete slab. Remember that old story with the wolf and the three pigs?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: arcas
7:50pm EDT NOAA interrim update: pressure continues to drop. The hurricane hunter aircraft failed to drop the dropsone in the exact center of the storm but still measured a minimum pressure of 899mb. NOAA is estimating the pressure to actually be 898mb. This makes Rita the 3rd most intense atlantic storm on record. Additional strengthening is forecast over the next 12 hours.

At this rate she could very well gun for the #2 position(892mb), though I would doubt it can break the 888mb floor required for #1.

 

[virtueixi]

Let Browning try another one!

 

[Chaotic42]

Gas lines are already crazy again just outside of New Orleans. Gas hording, etc.

I don't know what I'll do. I use about 30-35 gallons per week.

 

[TitanDiddly]

I am in Longview, TX. I am hoping to travel to Wichita Falls, TX on friday night and return Sunday night. Does anyone have any guesses on how much the storm will weaken before Sunday night? It seems like it will be the Longview area around the time when I will be coming back, but I don't know if it will be too strong to travel then.

 

[ViRGE]

10pm Report:

Winds: 175mph
Pessure: 897mb(the wind-pressure relationship dictates that the winds should be ~185mph)
12 more hours of possible explosive growth to go
Landing intensity likely between a strong Cat 4 and a Cat 5

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
I am in Longview, TX. I am hoping to travel to Wichita Falls, TX on friday night and return Sunday night. Does anyone have any guesses on how much the storm will weaken before Sunday night? It seems like it will be the Longview area around the time when I will be coming back, but I don't know if it will be too strong to travel then.

I think you should plan on leaving much earlier than Friday night. Possibly Thursday night?

 

[imported_goku]

More like "PITA"! PAIN IN THE AS$

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Gas lines are already crazy again just outside of New Orleans. Gas hording, etc.

I don't know what I'll do. I use about 30-35 gallons per week.

They're about $2.69 where I live right now. What are we expecting them to jump to? I've been hearing $4-$4.50?

 

[conjur]

11pm projection
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/023809.shtml?3day?large


It's shifted northward...that puts the NE portion hitting Galveston.


11PM Advisory
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/220249.shtml?

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 175 MPH...280 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. RITA IS A POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE ON
THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY ARE LIKELY
DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 70 MILES...110 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 185 MILES...295 KM.

THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 897 MB...26.49 INCHES.
THIS MEANS RITA IS THE THIRD MOST INTENSE HURRICANE IN TERMS OF
PRESSURE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: conjur
11pm projection
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/023809.shtml?3day?large


It's shifted northward...that puts the NE portion hitting Galveston.


11PM Advisory
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/220249.shtml?

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 175 MPH...280 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. RITA IS A POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE ON
THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY ARE LIKELY
DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 70 MILES...110 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 185 MILES...295 KM.

THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 897 MB...26.49 INCHES.
THIS MEANS RITA IS THE THIRD MOST INTENSE HURRICANE IN TERMS OF
PRESSURE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN.

Galveston is fvcked. Also note the projections have it still being a hurrican as far inland as Waco. I live in College Station and we are in its path. Its going to be a bumpy weekend.

I wonder if I will have to work my double on Saturday.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
I am in Longview, TX. I am hoping to travel to Wichita Falls, TX on friday night and return Sunday night. Does anyone have any guesses on how much the storm will weaken before Sunday night? It seems like it will be the Longview area around the time when I will be coming back, but I don't know if it will be too strong to travel then.

Id leave tomorrow not Friday.

 

[conjur]

you'll be needing to drink a double....several of them.


I have a cousin in Sugarland. Need to call my dad and find out if they've bugged out.

 

[Ikonomi]

I wish I had a webcam to broadcast the hurricane over the net.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
I wish I had a webcam to broadcast the hurricane over the net.

:thumbsup:

Hmmm...I could hook up my camera's video output to my TV tuner card....

 

[ViRGE]

FYI, the next recon fixes should be in within 1-2 hours.

 

[Medea]

(As of 10 PM CDT, the barometric pressure is down to 897 with winds @ 175 mph.)

Although it's just one milibar, another drop in the pressure may very well indicate that it's going to strengthen even more. The water is still very warm where it's currently located.

 

[dym]

yeah, I just packed... leaving for austin tomorrow

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Medea
(As of 10 PM CDT, the barometric pressure is down to 897 with winds @ 175 mph.)

Although it's just one milibar, another drop in the pressure may very well indicate that it's going to strengthen even more. The water is still very warm where it's currently located.

One of the bouys knocked out earlier today was reporting waters of 85F, and that's a bouy some distance out from the storn.

 

[conjur]

KPRC-TV streaming video
http://mfile.akamai.com/12944/live/reflector:38616.asx

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Nik
We're still in the middle of hurricane season. Hopefully the people of Texas are smarter than the people of NOLA in that they'll GTFO before it's too late.

When are they going to have Hurricane FFMCobalt?

You do realize that most of the people couldn't financially leave in NO?

Now they have buses and shuttles in TX getting people out for lower income groups.

Don't give me that fvcking bullsh|t. It started with the governor doing, oh say, NOTHING. Then it was up to the mayor who did, oh say, NOTHING. Can you say school busses? The mayor certainly cannot.

Then it was up to the people themselves to get their ass out of NOLA. I don't believe that only the rich can get off their fat asses and walk to the highway and bum a ride off kind and selfless neighbors, hitch a ride with a neighbor, or what.

Anyway, it's not about NOLA anymore.

Like I said, hopefully the people of Texas are smarter than the people of LA.

 

[conjur]

fvck off with your RW bullsh*t talking points.

Jesus christ...give that BS a rest already.