Hurricane Rita

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http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050921/ap_on_re_us/rita

cliff notes
Well there is another strong hurricane going into the gulf.
Rita is rapidly strengthening, it hit the florida keys as a weak category 1 and is now estimated to be a category 4 with top winds around 135mph and likely to strengthen when it gets over the deep warm water in the gulf

This cant be good for gas prices, and god help new orleans if it hits there

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my guess is it hits about 100 miles north of Galveston, and will hit as a Cat 5. :eek:

p.s. GET READY FOR THE HIGHEST GAS PRICES YET AFTER RITA HITS

The hurricane threatened to shut facilities unaffected by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf coast three weeks ago and pushed oil to a record high of $70.85 a barrel.
Texas is home to some of the largest plants in the U.S., and accounts for a quarter of the refining capacity in the world’s largest energy consumer.

U.S. refineries were still struggling to meet demand after Katrina, which disrupted supplies so badly that international reserves had to be tapped.

this one should make it over $4/gallon easily. :mad:

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“Let’s rebuild New Orleans!”

Yeah, keep rebuilding it…

This piggy built his house with straw

This piggy built his house with sticks

This piggy built his house 150 feet under sea level with crappy levees to boot

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got family-in-law in Corpus Christi, TX… they are dead nuts in the path of a suggested Cat IV. :frowning:

So, yea, been watching TWC & .com’s for a couple of days.

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Here’s hoping it hits mexico.

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then, where will we get competent $1.50/hr labor?

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It’s official: Category 5 as of now.

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New Orleans? what’s that?

and i totally agree with howie…was stupid to build/inhabit there anyway…and considering for one second doing it all over again…would be oober dumb…i say we stay outta there, nothing man made can compete with nature’s furies…(ie hurricanes, earth quakes, flooding, land slides, tsunamis, etc etc)

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Fuck Rita, some dude in TX told me he was gonna buy a bunch of car stuff im selling, and now he cant cuz he thinks his house is gonna blow away. Fuck that.

lol

Seriously, I feel sooooooooooooooooo bad for the poor guy

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CAT 5 165 mph winds. Wonder how fast Bush is gonna help Texas

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alright well lets get on top of things and create our vigilante posse before it hits… that way we can drive down, stock up and prepare to wipe the floor with looter scumbags after its over

vigilante posse is awesome

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Cant we just nuke the sky and make rita go away?

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yea, I’ll get right on it after I finish my flux capacitor.

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picture:
http://hurrita.ytmnd.com/

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/NjccBflo/sign_omfg.jpg

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LOL

that picture is awesome

this situation is bad tho.

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im originally from galveston beach,texas and really worried about my friends and family…the beach area is a barrier island and has alot of attractions that might not be there by the end on the weekend…

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i’m with You, though my concerns are now only on the edge of the projected pathway… but that isn’t much comfort.

They cannot leave because they run the local zoo.

Ah well.

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http://i.cnn.net/money/popups/2005/news/rita_map/map.gif
map.gif830×655

do you guys see those yellow triangles? http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/images/smilies/eek2.gif

http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif oh no…what’s going to happen when they’re “attacked” by a category 5 hurricane? http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/images/smilies/banghead.gif

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wow, sweet map. :tup: to answer your question… $5 a gallon gas :mad: