Rita's Path

Given its very southern location in the Gulf, it would have to make a northern turn of unprecedented magnitude to hit us.

 

Well, she's up to 140mph now. Scary part about that is that Katrina was 145mph on the Saturday night before she hit. When I worke up Sunday morning, she was up to 175mph. So I guess I'm expecting 300mph+ for H-Town.

 

Dont forget they can always start a turn and then get picked up by the jet stream or a front and start moving northeast.

Now one is out of the woods with a hurricane until it is dead.

There have been a few in my lifetime that have hit land only to bounce back out and hit another place.

 

Baton Rouge moves even farther away from the cone

 

The Weather Channel has Louisiana totally out of the cone.

 

GWB does not make these hurricanes himself, Halliburton does. That guarantees them a no-bid rebuilding contract.:hihi:

 

Great news...

I wondered why we were still in the hurricane center one, because the models they use to make an average are all WAY away from us...

 

And to top it off, a meteoroligist that works for the Gov't, (WHO ACCURATELY PICKED KATRINA'S LANDFALL FROM THE BEGINNING, EVEN WHEN IT WAS FORCASTED FLORIDA) said that this thing will strike 50 miles north of the Mexican border

That was in the Reville

 

all depends on which flavor cone you choose......

 

I got married in New Orleans on 9/7/74. A week before the wedding, Hurricane Carmen formed out in the Atlantic. No one paid it any attention. During the days before the wedding, she moved into the southern Gulf and made a beeline for Mexico, below the Yucatan Peninsula. No problem. A few days before the wedding, she skirted the coast and headed north for the Yucatan. Not a problem. She blew through the Yucatan and reformed in the Gulf. Then she headed NE. On the morning of the wedding, I turned on the TV and there was Nash Roberts with a map showing arrows pointed directly at New Orleans. Not a good sign. "The eye will be over New Orleans at 2 pm" Nash said. The wedding was set for 2 pm. Everybody from my hometown in St. Martin Parish cancelled their plans to travel in for the wedding. Most of the wedding party was already in New Orleans, so we moved it up to 11:00. Neither the Best Man or the Maid of Honor made it, so everyone moved up a notch. As soon as the wedding was over, my family skedaddled for Cecilia. The hurricane made a last minute jog to the west and slammed into Morgan City and caught my relatives about the time they made it home.

Moral: No one is out of the woods with a hurricane until it is dead.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1974/