Maybe Katrina will turn westward and head toward Texas?

[kentuck]

I think there is a lot of unpredictability in these situations. It looks like it is going to hit New Orleans head on but it could change, couldn't it? But I would think if it turned, it would lose some of its strength, but I'm far from an expert. If I were living on the coast of Texas, I would not sleep tonight.

[BlueJac]

1. If it had a brain to would head toward Crawford

[moc]

3. Hurricanes are notoriously unpredictable, but no, it won't lose

strength. The problem with hurricanes in the gulf is that the gulf is just a big bowl of hot water. That hot water just feeds the strength of hurricanes.

But yes, it's possible it could change course at the last minute and slam into Galveston.

[cosmik debris]

9. We don't want it in Texas,

but you are right. It would be a lot worse in NOLA than in the great Coastal Bend At least Texas is above sea level.

[OBrien]

13. Sorry for my rant

I just assumed it was another trash TX thread. Sorry, I'm just very emotional today.

[kentuck]

22. I would not trash Texas...

I like Texas. :) Bush is a fake Texan.

[rocktivity]

14. Speaking of bowls...

:headbang:
rocknation

[derby378]

7. But Cindy Sheehan is still there

...as are a bunch of DUers, Gold Star Families, VFPs, etc.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. And blow away Camp Casey?

I hope not. Think about this. bu$h most likely has a storm shelter at his ranch and he will be fine. But Camp Casey is out in the open.

[BlueJac]

21. Bush has a shelter for everything!

[pop goes the weasel]

24. Maps are your friend

Crawford is too far away from the coast to be threatened by a hurricane.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I wish it would

anywhere it hits there will be devastation..however, the most devastation will occur hitting N.O. head on.
It's the lesser of two evils.

[Endangered Specie]

4. Hurricanes follow the path of least resistance

Right now, the least resistant path leads it around the LA/MS border. That front WILL turn it, the question is when and how fast.

[wtmusic]

6. Which way?

the NOLA website made it look like it would veer east

[Endangered Specie]

8. Yeah, thats what will happen.

its just a question of when and how fast.

[sam sarrha]

5. this one is going 30 miles EAST right into the lake.... poor bastards

[Roland99]

11. It took a shift west but is back on a NW track

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[charlie]

15. kentuck "trashed" Texas?

News to me.

[OBrien]

26. read my apology upstsirs

just being a bit sensitive, sorry

[cry baby]

16. The religious right would then say that it is God that sent Katrina

to blow away the tents and peace lovers from our blessed shrub.

[Jawja]

17. Otherwise if it doesn't

and bashes into a couple of other "red" states, they say nothing.

[cry baby]

19. true that!

[VADem11]

18. No

I trust the cone. It might be like Charley which turned away from Tampa at the last minute and caught everyone off guard.

[dogday]

20. Some reason you wishing this

massive storm show up right at my doorstep?

[kentuck]

23. Why would you think that??

I would wish it would die immediately and not hit anywhere. My point was to warn people that these events can be unpredictable.

[dogday]

25. That is true, I always keep an eye out

for this side of the gulf. We had our underwater adventure a couple of years ago and that is enough for me.

I wished it would die out. A lot of time the press will go on and on and the storm becomes smaller and weaker and comes in as a 3 and quickly ends up a 2. I don't think that this one is going to do that though this time....

[silverlib]

27. If it hits Texas, we wound then know

that Osama's god is more powerful than Bush's god.

I've been thinking of writing Bush and asking him to please quit praying for our country. It simply isn't working.