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September 23, 2005
Here comes Rita
Houston awakens this morning to the news that the two most likely locations for landfall are Port Arthur and Galveston. The cone of uncertainty extends from southwestern Louisiana on the east to the entire Houston metro area on the west. The National Hurricane Center is currently predicting landfall to occur in Jefferson County near Port Arthur, while local experts are predicting landfall slightly west in Chambers County nearer Galveston Bay (county map here). As Rita continues to move slowly with its eye about 260 miles southeast of Galveston, a consensus has developed that the storm will move into northeast Texas after landfall and then stall on Sunday and Monday, potentially causing huge amounts of rainfall of the type that flooded the Houston area during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. Landfall is expected at this point sometime in the early morning hours of Saturday, probably between 5 a.m. to 8 a.m., although heavy rainfall and strong winds throughout the Houston area will be experienced well before then.
Houston, get ready to rumble.
Posted by Tom at September 23, 2005 07:30 AM
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I'm still better off than those folks in the bus fire. Somebody is going to have to patently explain to me how the authorities thought millions of people could be evacuated in such a short time. Was this suppose to be accomplished by waving a magic wand?
Posted by: David Thomson at September 23, 2005 09:28 AM
what a huge power
http://www.ljplus.ru/img/i/s/istopnik/Katrina_hits_New_Orleans.jpg
Posted by: joe at September 23, 2005 09:59 AM
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