Rita #2
Looky here, as this damn thing has a female name it seems to use its prerogative to change it’s mind.
Now the path shows it making landfall right on top of me. I don’t know what I have done to piss off mother nature but what ever it was she is gonna show me.
If the storm follows this track and makes landfall Sat am , I will be leaving Friday morning and heading to Houston to stay with my sister until it is ok to come back. I will start gathering up and packing things that I need to take with me, items such as insurance papers, passport, photos, cameras and othe small electronics.
Where I live is near where Hurricane Carla made landfall in Sept 1961.
The most powerful tropical system to affect the Texas coast in over 40 years…Hurricane Carla made landfall between Port O’Connor and Port Lavaca on the day of September 11, 1961. In the open waters of the Gulf, a minimum central pressure of 931mb, or 27.50 inches along with maximum sustained wind speeds over 150 mph, made Carla a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. When the “eye” or center of Hurricane Carla made landfall early in the morning of the 11th, the intensity had dropped off but the storm was still packing winds of 120 mph in areas from Port O’Connor up the coast to Galveston. The “eye” of the storm came within 65 miles to the east of Corpus Christi.
Hurricane warnings were issued along the entire Texas coast on the 9th prompting immediate evacuation of all islands just offshore and low coastal areas. The wind, not the rain, became the major weather factor for the Coastal Bend area. Preliminary wind reports from locations hit hardest by Carla indicated sustained wind speeds of 115 mph in Matagorda…110 mph in Victoria…and 88 mph in Galveston. Peak wind gusts were estimated at 150 mph in Victoria and 170 mph at Port Lavaca! Average wind gusts of 80 to 90 mph were reported across Corpus Christi, with a peak wind of 81 mph recorded at the tower of the Weather Bureau Office, before failure of the instrument.
I was living in Houston when Carla made landfall and we had rain for about 3 days as the strom was slow moving. In July of 2003 I was hammered by Hurricane Claudette, which was a cat 1 storm, they projected the eye to make land fall to the southwest of me but at the last minute it came ashore right over me. In the image below , if you look for the eye thats where I live.
Jim at Smoke on the Water, who lives on a sailboat on Galveston Bay, is also making plans.
September 19, 2005
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As of 4 pm, Rita is a category 5 storm with 165-mph winds, located 300 miles west of Key West, Florida. Rita is moving west at 12 mph, and will move out into the central Gulf over the next 24-48 hours. Yet another one for the record books. This is the first time in recorded history that two Cat 5 Hurricanes have developed in the Gulf of Mexico in the same year.
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