Subj : Re: Hurricane Rita
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Mweeby
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 03:19 am

  Re: Re: Hurricane Rita
  By: Sam Alexander to Finnigann on Thu Sep 22 2005 10:15 am

 >   Re: Re: Hurricane Rita
 >   By: Finnigann to richardw on Thu Sep 22 2005 05:26 am
 > 
 >  > -=> richardw wrote to All <=-
 >  >
 >  >  ri> Well, I just spoke with my father.  He lives in Pasadena, TX.
 >  >  ri> Pasadena is about 20 miles from Houston.  He's packing.
 >  >
 >  >  ri> They're going to stay with some friends in Austin, TX until the stor
 >  >  ri> passes.  They're supposed to be evacuated by 6pm today, but he said
 >  >  ri> they're not gonna make it.  They will be leaving in the morning.
 >  >
 >  >  ri> He said the line of cars is already incredible.
 >  >
 >  >  ri> Rita is now a category 5, one of only 3 to ever hit the US mainland,
 >  >  ri> so I've read.  Sustained winds of 165mph, and likely to grow stronge
 >  >  ri> before it makes landfall late friday, or saturday.
 >  >
 >  >  ri> It's good to know my father will not be in it's path.  I only hope h
 >  >  ri> will have a home to come back to.  Their home is fairly close to the
 >  >  ri> ocean, and he has no flood insurance.  The "surge" just might submer
 >  >  ri> the place.  If not the water, I can't imagine what 165mph winds woul
 >  >  ri> be capable of.
 >  >
 >  >  ri> It's certainly good to live in an age when we can see these storm
 >  >  ri> comming.
 >  >
 >  > I have an ex and many friends in Bay City 70miles S of Houston. I have a 
 >  > good thoughts for everyone in the path of this monster. Hopefully they al
 >  > find ground high enough...
 >  >
 > 
 > Yup, I have family in Beaumont, and being older (from 70 through 98 yo) they
 > have the mentality that they've lived through a century of hurricanes,
 > what's so big asobut this one.  That's my biggest worry right now...
 > 
 > For us in Waco, being 200 miles from the coast they're saying 60-70 mph
 > winds Saturday with TONS of rain, so if a tornado doesn't hit worst case is
 > power outages for a week or so.  Great, no BBS!!!!
 > 
 > Sam
 > 
I just looked at a forecast for Wako and it looks like there will be lots of
thunder and heavy rain, but not much was said about wind.

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