Ryder":25k816m6 said:
txshowmom":25k816m6 said:
Everyone needs to CALM DOWN!!! We need to remember that most all of the devistation from Hurricane Katrina was not caused by the hurrican itself but by the flooding. Peole are really freaked out about this hurricane. We need to be prepared but not scared. We are not a soup bowl waiting to be filled with water like NO. Its very sad what happened over there but look at the eleivations. Texas will westher the storm much better. We need to be prepared not scared!
Mississippi coast is not New Orleans and not in a soup bowl. They were very calm too long and slow evacuating. Homes destroyed. Don't know how many people dead. Trent Lott's home had weathered everything for 150 years in Pascagoula and was several feet above sea level. This last storm got it.
A 4 or 5 storm is very dangerous.
Ryder as usual you hit the nail on the head if Rita comes in a Carla type storm TSM will be singing a different tune. I have seen what a Cat 5. Stay all of you that want helps clean the gene pool.
... Hurricane Rita similar to hurricane Carla...
Strong and powerful Hurricane Rita will be moving along a path
similar to hurricane Carla... a major hurricane that hit the central
Texas coast near Port O'Connor on September 11, 1961.
Despite making landfall nearly 200 miles from the southwest Louisiana
coast... carla's effects were felt across southeast Texas and
southwest Louisiana.
Location winds (mph) rain (inches) tides (feet)
Sabine Pass 10
Port Arthur 48 gust 55 4.76 7.8 (record)
Cameron gust 50 6.5
Lake Charles 44 gust 55 1.58
Morgan City 5.57
Across southwest Louisiana... some damage occurred to house roofs and
glass windows along with downed tree limbs. Some locations on the
lower Calcasieu River near Lake Charles Rose to one foot above flood
stage.
If Rita continues on the same path... with a landfall along the
central Texas coast... similar effects will be possible across
southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. With the storm making
landfall west of the area... heavy rains with totals of 3 to 6
inches... tropical storm force winds... storm surge 6 to 8 feet and
tornadoes could occur.