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Post by Ns-5™ on Sept 22, 2005 6:10:44 GMT
Hurricane Rita's rapid intensification cycle that began Tuesday afternoon continues. Top winds are up to 175 mph, now a category 5 hurricane. Rita's pressure has dramatically dropped to 897 millibars! Even as a large and extremely intense category 5 hurricane, further strengthening is possible as the atmosphere remains favorable for development over the next 24 hours. Rita is forecast to continue on a westward track through the Gulf of Mexico over the next 24 hours. A gradual turn toward the northwest is anticipated Thursday night and Friday. If there is any good news at this point, it is the fact that it is very difficult for a hurricane to maintain category 5 status for an lengthy period of time. Near-perfect to perfect atmospheric conditions are necessary for a category 5 hurricane to exist and these "perfect" conditions are first - difficult to come by and second - do not remain in place for a long period of time. So although Rita is currently a category 5 hurricane, fluctuations in intensity is likely. That being said, it is almost a certainty that Rita will make landfall as a large, intense, major hurricane with impacts extending well away from the center. Hurricane force winds extend 70 miles away from the center and tropical storm force winds extend 175 miles from the center. Landfall is possible late Friday or early Saturday along the Texas coast. Residents and tourists in locations such as Corpus Christi, Aransas Pass, San Jose Island, Matagorda Island, Port Lavaca, Port O'Connor, Bay City, Lake Jackson, Freeport, Galveston, Texas City, Houston, and Port Arthur should ALL prepare for a very dangerous landfalling major hurricane. Hurricane watches are now posted along much of the Texas coastline from Port Mansfied, Texas to Cameron, La. In addition, tropical storm watches are now in effect from Port Mansfield, Texas to Rio San Fernando, Mexico. Elsewhere in the Atlantic Basin, Philippe has weakened to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 45 mph. It is centered about 420 miles NE of the Leeward Islands. Philippe is being sheared by westerly winds and that should keep the system on a weakening cycle as it plods off to the north away from any land. In the central and eastern Pacific, Hurricane Jova (115 mph), Tropical Storm Kenneth (50 mph) and Tropical Storm Max (45 mph) are all swirling toward the west or northwest. None of these storms pose a threat to any land at this time. For More Information Click Here
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Post by Kahless™ on Sept 22, 2005 20:54:24 GMT
I heard abiout this, its gonna be brutal, there is no way New Orleans can with stand the strongest Hurricane in history, its just not possible.
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Post by White.Night on Sept 22, 2005 21:59:08 GMT
Acctually its the 3rd strongest in history But yeah that sucks now the gas proces are going to be like over $2!!! I feel sorry for all the people in New Orleans They just start moving back into there houses and suddenly they are leaving agian. There is going to be nothing left of that place. And it looks like Texas is getting ripped apart to...didnt Xeron go there for a week end one time...
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Post by Kahless™ on Sept 22, 2005 22:05:51 GMT
no its not the 3rd, Andrew was the strongest before and this has topped it, the winds are past 200 now
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Post by White.Night on Sept 23, 2005 20:03:00 GMT
Well thats what I herd. But there are people lining up for gas in Huston and I think they said that there was a 2 hour wait for gas. man, even up here in Canada there are people filling up everything they can because they dont want to hit any higher prices. I could NOT imagin being in eastern Texas right now.
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Post by Black Rose on Sept 23, 2005 23:41:08 GMT
Well thats what I herd. But there are people lining up for gas in Huston and I think they said that there was a 2 hour wait for gas. man, even up here in Canada there are people filling up everything they can because they dont want to hit any higher prices. I could NOT imagin being in eastern Texas right now. yeah my Aunt is there right now. She is trying to get away but the traffic is Hell
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Post by White.Night on Sept 24, 2005 2:04:48 GMT
Yeah I could imagine, people are running out of gas on the highway and just pushing there car to the side of the road and hitch hiking. I is pure havok down there man. I feel sorry for all the people in the southern states right now.
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Post by Prox on Sept 25, 2005 21:16:24 GMT
The winds are dropping now to around 120MPH, and it's been downgraded to a category 4 hurricane. It's very much weaker now it's made landfall, but it's still a hurrendous storm and could easily destroy anything within it's path.
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Post by White.Night on Sept 25, 2005 23:00:59 GMT
Yeah I herd that it died down quite a bit from what it was. But a hurricain is a hurricain it can still kill and destroy in an instant. hopefully people will still realize this and keep moving.
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Post by mikestunner on Sept 26, 2005 22:49:16 GMT
my sister lives up in texas, she lives in huston texas so she didn't get it really bad just though i would say that well there was trafic blocked up for over 100 miles back of people trying to get out of texas
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