Rita turns east: It's Louisiana Again

[longship]

Rita has turned to the right enough that it is now predicted to landfall in western Louisiana or east Texas. Gov Blanco is evacuating everybody south of I-10. She has resquested 15,000 additional NG.

This is very sad news.
:cry:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. The Crawford toy ranch is off the hook.

[Wheezy]

2. Was this said on her press conference?

I saw the very end of it, but didn't hear that part. :(

[Pirate Smile]

3. There are new tracking maps that show it hooking in at the west

part of LA.

[Momof1]

5. Yep, and if you stay "Write your SS# on your arm for

identification purposes"

[longship]

7. "in indelible marker" (so that your body can be ID'd)

nt

[choicevoice]

4. Yep, LA is fucked again.

For Katrina I had a housefull of relatives and friends from NO and as far away as Tuscaloosa AND we had a wedding the Saturday following the storm.

This time we are expecting everyone from Houston and Lake Charles, LA. Our home is now officially a hotel.

I'm not complaining, just tired.

[skylarmae]

8. sending you lots of energy thoughts...hang in there

sounds like they need you. you must be wonderful...oh - that's right.. you're here at DU..I've experienced quite a bit of wonderful here lately...

[Sydnie]

6. You can see it turning

I swear, it doesn't look like it is all that different from the Katrina path. It appears to be turing in the same direction.

I fear it will have another hit to NOLA, only this time, they will be on the east side instead of the west. I wish they could have gotten all the bodies out of there before now, because I fear some will never be found after this storm hits there.

I am not a very religious person, but I am saying a little prayer for all of those, living, dead, and dying in the path of this storm. :( :cry:

[DemoTex]

9. The blocking "high" is much more to the east than earlier forecasts.

This could, potentially, bode ill for Louisiana. It ain't over till the fat lady sings, and the fat lady is Rita.

[Mutley]

10. Here are the latest computer models from

Weather Underground.



It does look like it's turning east. I wouldn't wish this storm on anyone but LA is the last state in the union that needs this right now.

[Zynx]

11. Most show it hitting Texas.

[Mutley]

12. Right, but LA will still get a hit from this storm...

even if the eye makes landfall in TX. And I heard last night on MSNBC(? maybe CNN) that it could take as little as 6 inches of rain to reflood NO. Plus, there is still a good 48 hours until it makes landfall; more than enough time to continue making the turn. Trust me, I hope I'm wrong.

[stevietheman]

15. A couple of those paths come close to Crawford. n/t

n/t

[Mutley]

16. It's too bad some good people live in Crawford, too.

[Igel]

13. What turned east can also turn west.

The only thing it's done so far is make a hard problem harder: instead of evacuating Corpus Christi through Galveston, it's Corpus Christi through SW Louisiana.

The good thing: it'll likely be east of Galveston Bay. Smaller storm surge.

(Edited to replace "lesser" with "smaller". Great, now my grammar's rotting.)

[tx_dem41]

14. Of course, Rita is NOT turning east at the moment.

Its current heading still appears to be 285 according to NOAA. That is hardly "turning east".