Rita and Corpus Christi

[j-6]

I am having a bunch of black refugees evacuated as we speak - I'm moving my brangus cows up to a pen behind the house.

It's evacuees, remember?

[Shelly]

It's evacuees, remember?

I saw someone on the news last night and she politely reminded us that she was an evacuee and not a refugee.

[xrayzebra]

don't know who "they" are but if I had to guess it was a bimbo with a microphone. No way it will be a 50 foot surge.

CC, I thought I had read the story in the E-N this morning, tried finding it again, so I could put the link. I know I thought it was high too, but I did
read it right, I will keep looking and see if I can find the story again, so much
stuff in E-N this morning hard to go back and find one sentence.

[SpursWoman]

SW I had to look these areas up also. I've been here 8 years and I still talk about cities in CA and assume everyone knows where I'm talking about

I get confused on where they all are in relation to each other ... all I know is: Go 37 or 181 south and eventually you'll get to Corpus, just follow the signs. Go I10 East and it runs right into Houston.

But I could probably give you the la ude & longitude for every damn Target & HEB in the state.

[Shelly]

I get confused on where they all are in relation to each other ... all I know is: Go 37 or 181 south and eventually you'll get to Corpus, just follow the signs. Go I10 East and it runs right into Houston.

But I could probably give you the la ude & longitude for every damn Target & HEB in the state.

Why would we need to know anything else??

[gay abc]

I've lived here all of my life and I finally broke down and looked these places up on a map....

i have a sister in ingleside and my 83yo mother lives in corpus - as of last night they didn't want to evacuate - i told them i wasn't well enough yet to drive down there and do a "search and rescue" on them

[SpursWoman]

"Boutons would indicate"

Did I say "panic"?
Did I say "irrational"?
I saw people, twice as many as normal the clerk said, shopping calmly at 9:30 at night, cleaning out the tuna shelves, the water section, etc as if San Antonio were Palacios and as if SAWS, if it were even able to pump after both the entire South TX electrical grid and the SAWS generators went down, were pumping out E.coli.

So what? If it makes them feel better or more secure, so be it....it's their money.

Maybe there will be some good deals on non-perishables on ebay next week for the rest of us.

[SpursWoman]

I10 all the way to a little east of Seguin is all ONE WAY from Houston...so don't even try it.

[Sonia_TX]

My moms friends live in Corpus... They're not leaving. The lady hurt her back and can't sit in a car for more than two hours and the man has to work at the Oil Refinery or something. That's just sad. I would live through the pain and get out of there.

[travis2]

Wow...Rita really took a hit...

000
URNT12 KNHC 221500Z
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 22/1449Z
B. 25 DEG 18 MIN N
88 DEG 38 MIN W
C. 700 MB 2326 M
D. NA
E. NA
F. 121 DEG 135 KT
G. 35 DEG 13 NM
H. 913 MB
I. 18 C/ 3058 M
J. 22 C/ 3050 M
K. 14 C/ NA
L. OPEN SE
M. C017-55
N. 12345/7
O. 1/1 NM
P. NOAA3 1818A RITA OB 05
MAX FL WIND 135 KT NE QUAD 1446Z

[MannyIsGod]

000
Urnt12 Knhc 221500z
Vortex Data Message
A. 22/1449z
B. 25 Deg 18 Min N
88 Deg 38 Min W
C. 700 Mb 2326 M
D. Na
E. Na
F. 121 Deg 135 Kt
G. 35 Deg 13 Nm
H. 913 Mb
I. 18 C/ 3058 M
J. 22 C/ 3050 M
K. 14 C/ Na
L. Open Se
M. C017-55
N. 12345/7
O. 1/1 Nm
P. Noaa3 1818a Rita Ob 05
Max Fl Wind 135 Kt Ne Quad 1446z

[Sapphire]

000
Urnt12 Knhc 221500z
Vortex Data Message
A. 22/1449z
B. 25 Deg 18 Min N
88 Deg 38 Min W
C. 700 Mb 2326 M
D. Na
E. Na
F. 121 Deg 135 Kt
G. 35 Deg 13 Nm
H. 913 Mb
I. 18 C/ 3058 M
J. 22 C/ 3050 M
K. 14 C/ Na
L. Open Se
M. C017-55
N. 12345/7
O. 1/1 Nm
P. Noaa3 1818a Rita Ob 05
Max Fl Wind 135 Kt Ne Quad 1446z

Can you translate?

[MannyIsGod]

Travis beat me.

She's starting an EWRC. The eye is open to the south east (L) and the pressure has come up. The winds have really come down quite a bit to cat 4 status.

[MannyIsGod]

The winds are at about 135mph at the surface.

[MannyIsGod]

We're going to the store now to overreact. I'll be back later.

[Swishy McJackass]

My mom lives in Woodsboro (halfway between Victoria and CC on Hwy 77) and she's planning on sticking it out. I've been trying to convince her to come up here (B/CS) and stay with my wife and me, but she'll have none of it. Based on the projected path, does anyone know what kind of danger she's in?

[Ginofan]

I just called my roommate to make sure she had filled up her car, she said she did and that she went to the store to get water and stuff. They only had Evian water left on the shelves...so she got it anyway. We'll be drinking the good stuff

[ObiwanGinobili]

yum yum.
I love me some evian.

[sa_butta]

We're going to the store now to overreact. I'll be back later.

You should run to the beer aisle like a maniac and when you get the check out say "thank god, I thought you would be out by now. Ive got to prepare for the worst." With your cart full of 4 cases of beer.

[samikeyp]

Watching CNN now....we are going to be bone dry this weekend....Houston, Dallas, OKC will all get wet.

[Ginofan]

You should run to the beer aisle like a maniac and when you get the check out say "thank god, I thought you would be out by now. Ive got to prepare for the worst." With your cart full of 4 cases of beer.

[SWC Bonfire]

My mom lives in Woodsboro (halfway between Victoria and CC on Hwy 77) and she's planning on sticking it out. I've been trying to convince her to come up here (B/CS) and stay with my wife and me, but she'll have none of it. Based on the projected path, does anyone know what kind of danger she's in?

She needs to evacuate to Skidmore.

She'll probably get a pretty good north wind, TC. She probably just needs to worry about the trees around the house & power getting knocked out, not much else.

[SpursWoman]

We're going to the store now to overreact. I'll be back later.

I'm going at lunch to do my panicing.....

[sa_butta]

Watching CNN now....we are going to be bone dry this weekend....Houston, Dallas, OKC will all get wet.

Dont believe everything you see on CNN.

[CosmicCowboy]

Watching CNN now....we are going to be bone dry this weekend....Houston, Dallas, OKC will all get wet.

Not necessarily. All the TV stations seem to be hours behind the real situation...

If that hurricane degrades to a tropical and gets trapped in Texas by high pressure there will probably be enough rain to go around for everyone...

but the flooding on the Trinity and Brazos especially could be really bad...