# Rita, Now Category 4, Heads for Gulf Coast
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 21, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178 "2005-09-21T05:53:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@HaNnIBaL64](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HaNnIBaL64)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/1 "2005-09-21T05:53:22Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050921/ap\_on\_re\_us/rita](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050921/ap_on_re_us/rita)
Rita intensified into a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday with wind of 135 mph, deepening concerns that the storm could devastate coastal Texas and already-battered Louisiana by week’s end.
wonder if people will actually evacuate this time
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### Author:  [@ninjenn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninjenn)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/2 "2005-09-21T10:32:58Z")
Why would they want to do that?
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### Author:  [@81Boo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/81Boo)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/3 "2005-09-21T11:09:20Z")
who knows… more free tvs and shoes, just for texans now
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### Author:  [@The1SloR\_T](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The1SloR_T)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/4 "2005-09-21T11:15:39Z")
> [@4x4Blazer](#):
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> who knows… more free tvs and shoes, just for texans now
🤣
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### Author:  [@81Boo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/81Boo)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/5 "2005-09-21T11:17:27Z")
> [@The1SloShelby](#):
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> 🤣
oh yea, the nawlin’s people in texas get double now! 🍺
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### Author:  [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/6 "2005-09-21T11:29:42Z")
time to move
got to get a new Rolex
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### Author:  [@thefranchise](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/thefranchise)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/7 "2005-09-21T12:19:25Z")
thank god its not hitting me AGAIN… 3 storms in a year is my limit
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/8 "2005-09-21T12:21:04Z")
> [@thefranchise](#):
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> thank god its not hitting me AGAIN… 3 storms in a year is my limit
just get in a plane and fly until it passes :mullet:
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### Author:  [@ninjenn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninjenn)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/9 "2005-09-21T12:22:41Z")
> [@BoostedITR41](#):
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> just get in a plane and fly until it passes :mullet:
:eek4:
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### Author:  [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/10 "2005-09-21T12:23:01Z")
> [@4x4Blazer](#):
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> who knows… more free tvs and shoes, just for texans now
cause GW is from texas. he had to cover his ass so he’s making a storm hit his home state, you know…cause he has that type of power…
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### Author:  [@jinxxycat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jinxxycat)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/11 "2005-09-21T12:25:36Z")
Yeah it’s gettin ugly too. They say that Galveston, TX could flood like N.O. if they take a direct hit, it’s under sea level like N.O. is.
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### Author:  [@thefranchise](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/thefranchise)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/12 "2005-09-21T12:28:49Z")
> [@BoostedITR41](#):
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> just get in a plane and fly until it passes :mullet:
speaking of which, i got some pics from the last year since i been down here to share. i’ll make a new thread
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/13 "2005-09-21T12:29:09Z")
> [@jinxxycat](#):
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> Yeah it’s gettin ugly too. They say that Galveston, TX could flood like N.O. if they take a direct hit, it’s under sea level like N.O. is.
yes but those people are a bunch of hillbillies and will get out before it floods and won’t complain about it
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### Author:  [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/14 "2005-09-21T12:33:35Z")
> [@thefranchise](#):
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> speaking of which, i got some pics from the last year since i been down here to share. i’ll make a new thread
thats very odd u posted today, i saw a red eclipse just like urs on my way to work today and i was gonna start a "where’s the franchise"thread
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### Author:  [@ninjenn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninjenn)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/15 "2005-09-21T12:33:59Z")
> [@jinxxycat](#):
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> Yeah it’s gettin ugly too. They say that Galveston, TX could flood like N.O. if they take a direct hit, it’s under sea level like N.O. is.
I read it’s 8ft above sea level…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/16 "2005-09-21T12:36:27Z")
either way 8ft above is goin to allow a storm surge to flood it
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### Author:  [@rookee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rookee)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/17 "2005-09-21T12:40:34Z")
red cross should ship a million pounds of soap down there… mix with hurricane, and city comes out clean.
now if there was only a way to make the citizens of the south bath
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### Author:  [@JackdUp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JackdUp)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/18 "2005-09-21T12:45:17Z")
Uh, oh. I sense a Camille repeat. ☹
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### Author:  [@bobby311](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bobby311)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/19 "2005-09-21T13:28:28Z")
Its Category 5 now fyi
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### Author:  [@traydogg6969](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/traydogg6969)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rita-now-category-4-heads-for-gulf-coast/177178/20 "2005-09-21T13:28:56Z")
looks like gas is gonna go back up