Rita and Corpus Christi

[MannyIsGod]

Manny=Weather God.

Manny=obsessed.

Its 9am, I'm not working the rest of the week. I should be in freaking bed!

[ObiwanGinobili]

Mom pulled in sometime last night. ( i was asleep)
unloaded the dog, my baby brother and a bunch of stuf thats against the wall i nmy dinning room.
then she took off back to vic for everyone else.
I can't get thru to them so don;t know if they;ve left and are on thier way or what.
& Brian is still asleep, so it must've been late.... but i;ve got to wake him up soon to take his epilepsy meds.

[sa_butta]

Manny=obsessed.

Its 9am, I'm not working the rest of the week. I should be in freaking bed!

What times do you work?

[travis2]

she's right over the edge of the hottest part of the Gulf. It is almost as if this storm has a mind of her own and knows where to get the best environment. WTF man.

I think you're right on that one...

I'm tellin' ya...check out the last couple of satellite frames...looks like she's starting to level off westward again...following that finger of warm water maybe?

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

she's right over the edge of the hottest part of the Gulf. It is almost as if this storm has a mind of her own and knows where to get the best environment. WTF man.

Everyone knows that Bush is steering this thing with his weather maker.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

While this is cause for some relief, Rita, like her weaker sister Katrina did, will still bring a Category 5 level storm surge along a 60 - 80 miles stretch of coast to the right of where the storm makes landfall on Saturday. Storm surge heights will peak at 20 - 25 feet in some bays, and bring the ocean inland up to 50 miles from the coast. Large sections of I-10 between Houston and Beaumont will be inundated, and the flood waters will reach the cities of Beaumont, Orange, and Lake Charles. Wind damage will be severe, and Houston can expect a hazardous rain of glass from its high rise building like was experienced during Hurricane Alica in 1983.

[SpursWoman]

At 9:30 last night, HEB/Austin highway twice as many registers open as normal.
Some people have no sense in their common sense.

I think it demonstrates how easily people, like rats in an experimental cage, can be manipulated to obtain certain reactions, like spending, voting, sending money, by marketers, by politicians, religious hustlers, etc. They yield their free will and intelligence, autonomy to an external programming en y. Robots executing somebody else's voting/spending program, enhanced by the monkey-see-monkey-do, herd-of-sheep behavior.

Oh, wow....User was at the exact HEB at that exact time....

Maybe people watched too much of the that happened in New Orleans and don't want themselves & their families put in a similar situation? Or did that not really happen? It's always better to err on the side of caution. Water & batteries and non-perishable food is something that can be always used.

How many dead bolts do you currently have on your door?

[MannyIsGod]

Hey man, Boutons never irrationaly reacts to anything. Never.

[Hook Dem]

I think you're right on that one...

I'm tellin' ya...check out the last couple of satellite frames...looks like she's starting to level off westward again...following that finger of warm water maybe?

I think this is an important point Travis. No one should turn their back on this thing yet. I know that the night before Celia in 1970, they had it going to the same place as this one. I woke up the next morning and everything had shifted back down the coast and Corpus got a direct hit. This thing is giving the NHC fits and is not behaving well. I started noticing last night that they were not issuing updates as often as they should have. This tells me that they just can't be certain. Stay tuned.

[travis2]

I would expect to see some updates from the flights pretty soon. If I read the TCPODs correctly, right now there should be 2 A/C in the area...one high, one low...

[MannyIsGod]

They have a fix due at 10 Travis, so we'll know something then.

[MannyIsGod]

Hook, you're right about the fits. Everytime we get her nailed down she squirms and throws everything through a loop.

[travis2]

They have a fix due at 10 Travis, so we'll know something then.

Yeah, but they should post the VORTEX before that, right?

I'm impatient, damnit!

[MannyIsGod]

lol, we'll know something as they head in, but the VORTEX will come in after that.

[MannyIsGod]

You can follow this link once they start flying in

http://www.weathermatrix.net/tropical/2005/recon.shtml

[MannyIsGod]

Hey Travis, are you watching the NAM shift back south? This storm is giving me a headache.

[travis2]

Just started looking at it...had to refresh a bunch to make sure I had the current set (right now I've got it current out to 48 hours)

[Ginofan]

Can you say "WTF!"

[sa_butta]

Can you say "WTF!"

Im glad we are all on the same page here

[travis2]

NAM has it coming in at Matagorda in 48 hours...

*sigh*

[Shelly]

Can you say "WTF!"

Indeed!

[CosmicCowboy]

Can you say "WTF!"

This thing is crazy...It's rare to have this much disagreement in the models this close to landfall...

[SpursWoman]

Maybe instead of Crabby Jacks there should be a Where-The- -is-this-thing-going-watching party.

That map was ed up.

[SpursWoman]

NAM has it coming in at Matagorda in 48 hours...

*sigh*

Chris has an office pool going ... that's where he picked.

[sa_butta]

Maybe instead of Crabby Jacks there should be a WhereThe -is-this-thing-going-watching party.

That map was ed up.

We can meet up at Manny's with all of his maps and grids. Ill bring some beer.