Don't Look Now... (Rita)

Terry_Lasater

Terry_Lasater

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Mother Trucker!

Just as cleanup is beginning with Katrina survivors, along comes a beeotch named Rita to lay the smack down on Tejas.

The Weather Channel is pleading with people in the Galveston area to get out.
 
Fortunately for me, I'm buffered by several hundred miles of land. I'm sure we'll get some residual rains and winds in central Oklahoma.

However, I have a brother and a cousin (each with families) who live in Houston.

I'm hearing one meteorologist who is already claiming Rita is a Category 5 hurricane.
 
@ 3:32pm EST

"Top winds are up to 150 mph, just short of becoming a category 5 hurricane"

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~reservoir~
 
Yep... cat 5. Local news in Tulsa is saying we'll get it by sunday, but as 30-50mph winds and 3-5 inches of rain with flooding. We need the rain though.

Hope Houston is ready and learned something from katrina.
 
Damn that was quick....15mph faster in less than an hour. Sure hope this thing slows down before it makes landfall or it's gonna be real nasty!!

~reservoir~
 
KAI and Terry?

You guys gonna get some Tornadoes out of this? (I want DVX footage). Cat 5.

Damn. And KATS official toll is 1033 deaths so far.

Global Warming
 
 
Our recipe for tornadoes involves cool air from Colorado mixing with warm, moist air from the Gulf right over Oklahoma. I wouldn't expect any tornadoes, just lots of rain and some wind.

I know that a category 5 has some strong winds, but, in comparison, tornadoes pack even stronger winds in a narrower path. The F5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma (south OKC) in 1999 had winds in excess of 300 MPH. In fact, they were the strongest winds ever recorded on the face of the Earth. It is referred to, unofficially, as an F6 - because the Fujita scale ends at F5.
 
Fortunately, it should weaken some before landfall, because the waters along the Texas coast are cooler. Katrina didn't hit as a Cat 5.
 
Jubal28 said:
Me, too!



Dude:

Figure 15. Landfalling United States major hurricanes during the period 1991-2000

Figure 16. Landfalling United States major hurricanes during the period 2001-2004



Compare:

Figure 9. Landfalling United States major hurricanes during the period 1931-1940

Figure 10. Landfalling United States major hurricanes during the period 1941-1950



AND:

Figure 5. Landfalling United States major hurricanes during the period 1891-1900



We've got a ways to go.
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Interesting... I highly recommend a book 'A Short History of Progress' - surprisingly, of all the dangers humanity faces, 'global warming' (more correctly, 'global climate change') is not at the top of the list, although the author makes a rather convincing correlation between climate stability and dawn of civilizations.

Anyway - global warming? A little overrated. Loss of farm land, superflu, global war, vulnerability through specialization - those are as likely to kill our civilization as the climate change.
 
Hey, I'm not arguing anything for or against global warming; just pointing out that we get a couple of bad storms over the last 14 months (after five years of relative calm), and the Chicken Little impulse (sorry, John; not aimed at you specifically) comes out in force. It's been worse than this before; it will almost certainly be worse than this again, after it gets better. It's just worse now than in most of our experinces, so naturally, we assume it's the worst ever.
 
..has anyone tried calling anybody down there in TX? my sister lives there and she just called saying she couldnt get ahold of our family members down in houston. so i tried from here.. the phone lines all say "due to the hurricane all of the lines are not operable"..or something along that line. that stinks. ..has me worried about them, but im sure they are fine.. they dont mess around. they are likely long gone already.
 
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