Whoa! This is starting to get a little scary. The track has moved quite a bit closer now. I may have to pack it in. On a better note I was able to aquire 11 sheets of 1/2 inch ply tonight. Tomorrow we will decide. I have to deal with my tree and cut and install the plywood. Then decide. Angie is ready to go right now.
As it looks now I am seeing and hearing aboout people trying to evacuate and not being able to get anywhere! Moving 7 miles in an hour 3.5 hours from Galveston to Downtown! 10 hours to Centerville! I guess if we leave now we could make it to Dallas by Monday!
just got an update on the tv . . galveston to huntsville is 10.5 hrs. not good . . we talked to kelly & mom for 45 minutes and they moved about 5 miles during the conversation on the hardy toll road . . so good luck tomorrow.
Check the post time as this link will surly not be good for long, but Rita is now a
CAT 5
Accuweather.com damn! Thanks to G and Twinkle for the link...
Word is MANDATORY EVAC for all of Baytown starting tomorrow. People I'm not trying to downplay this but I think people are way overreacting because of the levee breaks. Cat 5 is a big deal where it crosses land but it's getting more and more south, i.e. further away from us... keep on going! sorry Corpus, I'm looking out for me right now!
Ok Dade's school is closed Baytown is in voluntary evac as is half of Houston. Most cities to the south are in mandatory evac mode at this point. To top it all off it achieved a Cat 4 15 hours before it was predicted to get to Cat 4. UGH! The worse news is that the Hurricane Hunter planes are all busted so the data they have is dodgy at best and makes the models very unreliable!... now the good news, the unreliable models have Rita moving a little more south than originaly predicted making it better from Houston and Baytown! Let's hope the dodgy data holds up!
I STILL NEED SURGE MAPS IF YOU HAVE ONE POST IN COMMENTS!
I will continue to post items as I find them here! I also will continue to update the image below with new frames as they come available.
I am looking for a good storm surge map... the one on KHOU is craptacular and I have the one above that is smallish... please set me one up in the comments if you find one!
Rita watch 2005! No seriously overnight the computer models moved Rita's landfall a bit more south. The coming days will tell... I'll keep blogging important bits as I see them.
Nope had not been there... did you know you were missing?!!!
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Yeah, those losers tried real freaking hard to locate me I'm sure. A friend told me that I was missing so I sent an email and the email address turned out to be Steve Gibson's. I'm sure there must be thousands of Stacy Herring's running around the Harris county area. We're doomed if that's true.
:: 9/19/2005 11:59:52 AM http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/picservice.asp?t=m&m=18 More DOOM and GLOOM! none of these look good... and how bad would it be if it hit N.O.? It might clean out all of the "mud" they have on the ground...
:: 9/20/2005 8:00:14 AM