Houston...we have a problem!, Here comes Rita

[AlexGT]

Ah! and for NOAA's website the most important thing, the top story on their website are saving the dolphins... :thumbsdow:toilet:

"Top story

NOAA FISHERIES SERVICE RESCUES THE LAST FOUR TRAINED DOLPHINS WASHED INTO MISSISSIPPI SOUND AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA..."

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

Well they ARE trained Dolphins.....

:geez:

 

[BB]

Here is a reason why a Mayor/Governor is between a rock and a hard place when ordering evacuations and when to move people back in...

Remember the 34 people who died in a nursing home in NOLA:

Houston, Galveston May Avoid Direct Hit

Hurricane Rita roared toward the Texas and Louisiana coast with 135 mph winds Friday, creating monumental traffic jams along evacuation routes and raising fears of a crippling blow to the nation's oil- refining industry. The storm was expected to come ashore early Saturday along the upper Texas-Louisiana coast on a course that could spare Houston and Galveston a direct hit. But Rita could plow into the oil and chemical centers of Beaumont and Port Arthur, about 75 miles east of Houston.

Also Friday, as many as 24 people were killed when a bus carrying elderly evacuees caught fire.

In rainy New Orleans, water poured over a patched levee, gushing into the city's hard-hit but largely empty Ninth Ward and heightening fears that Rita would flood the devastated city all over again.

"Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard. "We have three significant breeches in the levee and the water is rising rapidly."

-Bill

 

[AlexGT]

And we are trained people!!! , we pay our taxes, try that on a dolphin

Just think that they have their priorities messed up... again!

 

[AlexGT]

4:15pm cloudy very windy, getting ready for showtime...

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

I'm around 4-5 hours behind what Houston sees. Probably I'll wake up to noise.

 

[DieselDave]

Anybody in SE Texas or SW LA here tonight? If so, how goes it?

 

[TorchMan]

It's been mild until now. The first real squalls are her, and the wind has banged on the house. Some rain, not much. Lots of noise outside now, but not until a few minutes ago was the wind real bad.