Curse

Dame&Beast · Sep 21, 2005, 09:43 PM // 21:43

Hurricane season CAN NOT be over SOON enough!

I swear I took a nap today and Rita was a 4...wake up and she is a five....
Someone needs to stop feeding this thing!

*just wanted to rant*

zehly · Sep 21, 2005, 09:45 PM // 21:45

Yah. I had to take a sleeping agent last night because if I didn't I would have gone into uber panic mode. The more I hear about it (I have not looked at the news, read the paper, or anything else... to afraid) the more it sounds like Katrina all over again, and the more anxious I get. Last night was especially bad due to horrible rain storms

Dame&Beast · Sep 21, 2005, 09:50 PM // 21:50

Oh it's gonna be ok

Sir Skullcrasher · Sep 21, 2005, 09:53 PM // 21:53

Hurricane is coming... guess everyone should move to California .. oh wait.. you have to deal with earthquake here!

Don't worry, just get the heck out of there (Texas or whatever Rita will hit) and you'll be fine.

zehly · Sep 21, 2005, 09:56 PM // 21:56

Maybe I should go to where Rita hits and suffer the same fate as Eileen.

K A T R I N A -> A T R I -> R I T A

Partial anagram... maybe a sign?

Dame&Beast · Sep 21, 2005, 09:56 PM // 21:56

Now me personally having lived in Florida... I am not leaving... Call me stupid...but where I am I will get mostly rain and wind...So even though all of my family is bailing, I am not living my house! I happen to like rain...and besides my stray cat would get lonely or float away

so I am staying still..... Besides someone might loot my computer and I can so NOT have that.. I would hunt down the looter like a pissed off bloodhound with no food.

Ultimate_Gaara · Sep 22, 2005, 12:41 AM // 00:41

As an almost every day watcher of the weather network so ive heard about this one coming and all i ever think to myself is "giant unbreakable dome" thats the solution. Aside from that i think how people can live in a place they know is always in danger during some seasons... then again i say that knowing eventualy where i live will be sucked into a giant hole in the earth's crust... or so they say

Fenris Wulf · Sep 22, 2005, 12:52 AM // 00:52

I am getting out of town as well. Houston does pretty good against Huricanes, but so many buildings around here have never been tested against a low level hurricane...let alone the strongest storm known to man!! I am going up the road to our land in Navasota.

We should have a GWTX "Refugee Breakfast" in Bryan/College Station Saturday morning? LOL!!!

chris_nin00 · Sep 22, 2005, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Does Leeroy count?

Except this storm is different because the land is actually above sea level.
Unlike New Orleans.

chris_nin00 · Sep 22, 2005, 01:14 AM // 01:14

Mistress Eyahl · Sep 22, 2005, 02:17 AM // 02:17

Weather's changing.. gotta deal with it.

Story from the floods that hit Cornwall not so many months ago, a woman's dogs trapped in their campervan or something.. washed right into the sea and drowned a slow death.

Life's harsh.. gotta keep plumin' it on. I bet in the next 25 years a Hurricanes will make their presence better known.

Lost · Sep 22, 2005, 02:23 AM // 02:23

First time since 1961 there were two category fives in the same season. And it's the third lowest pressure on record in the atlantic beating Katrina. Apart from it heading toward lands to bring doom and gloom, it's fascinating to study.

EchoSex · Sep 22, 2005, 02:24 AM // 02:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mistress Eyahl

Weather's changing.. gotta deal with it.

Story from the floods that hit Cornwall not so many months ago, a woman's dogs trapped in their campervan or something.. washed right into the sea and drowned a slow death.

Life's harsh.. gotta keep plumin' it on. I bet in the next 25 years a Hurricanes will make their presence better known.

Cha, no crap. We've had some things happen with weather that has NEVER happend before. Living in Boston, I've seen snow with THUNDER behind it - that stuff wasn't even written in the Bible. I bet next season we get Locus and Frogs.

seanstyle · Sep 22, 2005, 02:27 AM // 02:27

Anyone know what skills are good vs air? If so I could send my air ele down to Rita and show her who's boss. I bet Rita is only like, level 24...so I should be able to take her down with some henchies.

EchoSex · Sep 22, 2005, 02:28 AM // 02:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by seanstyle

Anyone know what skills are good vs air? If so I could send my air ele down to Rita and show her who's boss. I bet Rita is only like, level 24...so I should be able to take her down with some henchies.

Heeee, if only it was possible :3 That'd be somethin' to watch.

Artemis89 · Sep 22, 2005, 02:41 AM // 02:41

I live in Ohio, what's a hurricane?

I actually just get remnants, but it's not the crazy 150 mph winds, only slight drizzles.

Link Ironhammer · Sep 22, 2005, 02:57 AM // 02:57

I have updates.
Hurricane Rita is now the third most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin.
Hurricane Rita's rapid intensification cycle that began Tuesday afternoon continues. Top winds are up to 165 mph, now a category 5 hurricane. Rita's pressure has dramatically dropped to 898 millibars! Even as a large and extremely intense category 5 hurricane, further strengthening is possible as the atmosphere remains favorable for development over the next 24 hours.

Rita is forecast to continue on a westward track through the Gulf of Mexico over the next 24 hours. A gradual turn toward the northwest is anticipated Thursday night and Friday. If there is any good news at this point, it is the fact that it is very difficult for a hurricane to maintain category 5 status for an lengthy period of time. Near-perfect to perfect atmospheric conditions are necessary for a category 5 hurricane to exist and these "perfect" conditions are first - difficult to come by and second - do not remain in place for a long period of time. So although Rita is currently a category 5 hurricane, fluctuations in intensity is likely. That being said, it is almost a certainty that Rita will make landfall as a large, intense, major hurricane with impacts extending well away from the center. Hurricane force winds extend 70 miles away from the center and tropical storm force winds extend 175 miles from the center. Landfall is possible late Friday or early Saturday along the Texas coast. Residents and tourists in locations such as Corpus Christi, Aransas Pass, San Jose Island, Matagorda Island, Port Lavaca, Port O'Connor, Bay City, Lake Jackson, Freeport, Galveston, Texas City, Houston, and Port Author should ALL prepare for a very dangerous landfalling major hurricane.

Hurricane watches are now posted along much of the Texas coastline from Port Mansfied, Texas to Cameron, La. In addition, tropical storm watches are now in effect from Port Mansfield, Texas to Rio San Fernando, Mexico.
Updated Storm Track: http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atl...ath_large.html I got the forecast for my area and Isolated torandoes are possible so ya I am a little scared.

Mistress Eyahl · Sep 22, 2005, 02:58 AM // 02:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by EchoSex

I bet next season we get Locus and Frogs.

You're not wrong, babe. Raining of frogs and other oddities has been put down to them being picked up by strong winds, ie: Hurricanes

Specially fish.. fish it good

More fish please!

Mistress Eyahl · Sep 22, 2005, 03:00 AM // 03:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Link Ironhammer

I have updates.
Hurricane Rita is now the third most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin.
Hurricane Rita's rapid intensification cycle that began Tuesday afternoon continues. Top winds are up to 165 mph, now a category 5 hurricane. Rita's pressure has dramatically dropped to 898 millibars! Even as a large and extremely intense category 5 hurricane, further strengthening is possible as the atmosphere remains favorable for development over the next 24 hours.

Rita is forecast to continue on a westward track through the Gulf of Mexico over the next 24 hours. A gradual turn toward the northwest is anticipated Thursday night and Friday. If there is any good news at this point, it is the fact that it is very difficult for a hurricane to maintain category 5 status for an lengthy period of time. Near-perfect to perfect atmospheric conditions are necessary for a category 5 hurricane to exist and these "perfect" conditions are first - difficult to come by and second - do not remain in place for a long period of time. So although Rita is currently a category 5 hurricane, fluctuations in intensity is likely. That being said, it is almost a certainty that Rita will make landfall as a large, intense, major hurricane with impacts extending well away from the center. Hurricane force winds extend 70 miles away from the center and tropical storm force winds extend 175 miles from the center. Landfall is possible late Friday or early Saturday along the Texas coast. Residents and tourists in locations such as Corpus Christi, Aransas Pass, San Jose Island, Matagorda Island, Port Lavaca, Port O'Connor, Bay City, Lake Jackson, Freeport, Galveston, Texas City, Houston, and Port Author should ALL prepare for a very dangerous landfalling major hurricane.

Hurricane watches are now posted along much of the Texas coastline from Port Mansfied, Texas to Cameron, La. In addition, tropical storm watches are now in effect from Port Mansfield, Texas to Rio San Fernando, Mexico.
Updated Storm Track: http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atl...ath_large.html I got the forecast for my area and Isolated torandoes are possible so ya I am a little scared.

I think these posts are striking more fear in people. Fear doesn't help, respect helps.

SOT · Sep 22, 2005, 03:01 AM // 03:01

I went out and about earlier, and there is gasoline at ANY pump for a 50 mile radius of me, here in Nacogdoches. The hotels and motels are filled with Lousiana refugees, as are the ihops, the denny's and walmart is a swelling morass of sweaty, fat overindulgent, underaged madness.

There is no gas. There are no gascans on the shelves. People have gone batshit. And yet, somehow, I am not among it. LMFGDAO.