Good Hurricane Rita image loop... looks bad

[trekbiker]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-vis-loop.html

[Carolab]

1. That thing is heading straight for Texas. n/t

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[Kralizec]

18. Except -- the economic repercussions are going to be terrible! I think

that they will probably be able to minimize life loss (i hope), but this is going to hit us a lot harder (U.S. as a whole) economically than Katrina, if you could believe that...

:scared:

[Pab Sungenis]

10. Actually....

Looks to me (from the animation) like it's starting to turn toward the WNW. It might hit Western Louisiana.

Either way, craploads of destruction are ahead of us again.

[trekbiker]

12. agree..

right at the end of the picture loop it looks like is starting to turn more northerly. Tomorrow's pictures should be very interesting. Whats left of the Gulf oil rigs are going to get hammered bad.

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[Pab Sungenis]

22. It spun back slightly southward

It won't be hitting Louisiana, aiming for Southern Texas and Mexico.

[op6203]

14. Oh no!

It does look like that! I hope it doesn't!!

op

[skids]

2. Sigh. Java.

Anyone know a site that uses animated gifs? I refuse to turn java on.

[pointblank]

6. Off subject...

but out of curiosity, can I ask why you don't want to turn Java on?

Thanks

[skids]

11. Two reasons.

Primarily security. Even under Linux I don't trust it.

Secondarily using websites that use Java encourages needless web bloat. Most of the stuff websites do today is perfectly acheivable with static pages and basic CGI technology. Instead we end up with the multi-megabyte webpages that spiral out of control on the development side and end up requiring a full-time staff to support all the uneccessary and complicated software. So I choose to patronize websites that are reasonably designed with my traffic.

(The second point isn't something that would be evident to anyone but a programmer, so I guess wisdom brings misery, as is said.)

More on how chucklehead web developers ruined a good thing here:

http://abrij.org/~bri/rants/deepweb.html

[pointblank]

19. Thanks for the link and your answer...

re article:


I didn't realize stylesheets were newer and viewed by some to be such a nuisance...I dabble ligthly in HTML and have always seen them to be kind of old hat in the HTML world. Heck, I was taught that you shouldn't even consider making a site without at least an external!

[Rainscents]

7. You can try this link!

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/index.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0

[tk2kewl]

3. Covers about 20% of the Gulf

:wow:

[Patiod]

5. Yikes

:scared:

Glad I don't live in its path

[rainbow4321]

8. Worst case scenario w/ Cat 5: west end of Galveston "not much left"

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou050920_gj_upclosecat5.79456dce.html


Category 4 or 5 Hurricane making a direct hit on Houston:


Using computer models, an animation created by the University of Texas predicts that within 15 hours, Galveston Island, which is just barely above sea level, would all but disappear.

<snip>

Houston is 50 feet above sea level and computer models show Sims and Brays Bayous would drain and be back in their banks within a day, with Buffalo Bayou and Clear Creek taking a day or two more.

Dr. Frank has personally surveyed damage from dozens of storms and should a Category Five ever hit in the Houston area, he thinks he knows what he'd find in the hardest hit areas.

"The best way I can describe that is we've seen pictures of what happened on the Mississippi coast. That's what the west end of Galveston Island is going to look like. Not much left," he said.

[Shakespeare]

9. wow...watching that eye tighten up and get well-defined is scary...

This is one big, bad mutha of a storm. :-(

[longship]

13. Last image shows that it is turning toward the right.

If you look carefully at the very last images, you'll see the eye jigging up in the picture. I hope this is not real.

[jimshoes]

15. I thought the same thing

Maybe just a blip. NO does not need another hit right now.

[understandinglife]

17. Agree. And, if that persists then eastern LA, MS, and AL are in even ...

... more trouble.


Peace.

[Carolab]

21. Turn on the wind direction and storm warning/tropical forecast icons.

It's pushing straight toward Texas.

[Walt Starr]

16. That's the tightest eye I've seen since Andrew!

Man, that thing has a tiny tiny eye!

920mb and going down...

Katrina was 902 at its worst...

And the warmest waters are still in front of the thing...

The high pressure dome over the midwest still moving along at the expected rate...

I say it'll be a Cat 5. Possibly the most intense hurricane in recorded history.