[turtlehead]

I just heard on the TV that Rita is the worst storm ever recorded, with the highest winds. She is headed for Texas/GREAT. Texas was so nice to take in all the Louisiana evacuees, and now their reward is a worse hurricane? No justice,,,,no justice at all.

All of Texas is full up. Oklahoma is almost full up, so evacuees from Houston are having to go to Kansas to find a place to stay . Pretty soon they'll be in Sask. The traffic in Houston was unbelieveable on the TV.
The reporter smarted off, "Well, I guess you can see which way is north."

Turtle

[xerxes]

I heard it was third worst. Either way, its going to deliver a most unwanted shitkicking to the Texas coast.

[ROCKaMIC]

NHC says it's the third most intense hurricane.. clearly worse than Katrina.

Get out of it's path.. NOW.. why doesn't people understand

[ROCKaMIC]

ROCKaMIC ROCKaMIC:

This is a poll i found on CNN's site.. quite deceiving..



If you were living in the projected path of Hurricane Rita, would you evacuate?

Yes 90% 128371 votes
No 10% 14742 votes

Total: 143113 votes

So 10% of the people would not evacuate.. what is wrong with their minds!? I know that they may have some stuff for which they have worked all their lives but what is better.. loosing it or loosing the entire life you dedicated to earning the money and the effort to buy/build that stuff...

FOLLOW UP 5 hours later. 11 thousand new votes, and percentage is the same. 1 out of them would not leave...

If you were living in the projected path of Hurricane Rita, would you evacuate?

Yes 90% 138733 votes
No 10% 15731 votes

Total: 154464 votes

[xerxes]

It's a macho thing. Also, leaving is a major disruption in people's lives. Rita's not supposed to make landfall until the weekend, so if people left today or before, that's a few days off from work and for those who live on the brink, that can have serious repercussions.

Honestly, given the right conditions (a well built house located on a hill) I would be tempted to stay for the experience.

[ShepherdsDog]

Was watching CNN. Traffic leaving Galveston is quite heavy. Anyone who stays is nuckin futz

[ShepherdsDog]

xerxes xerxes:

It's a macho thing. Also, leaving is a major disruption in people's lives. Rita's not supposed to make landfall until the weekend, so if people left today or before, that's a few days off from work and for those who live on the brink, that can have serious repercussions.

Honestly, given the right conditions (a well built house located on a hill) I would be tempted to stay for the experience.

The city is built on a sandbar with a 15 ft. seawall, there are no hills there. You ever been in a hurricane or a typhoon? Chances are you'd get to experience the Great Adventure too.

[ROCKaMIC]

xerxes xerxes:

It's a macho thing. Also, leaving is a major disruption in people's lives. Rita's not supposed to make landfall until the weekend, so if people left today or before, that's a few days off from work and for those who live on the brink, that can have serious repercussions.

Honestly, given the right conditions (a well built house located on a hill) I would be tempted to stay for the experience.

Sure it's macho thing. Saying to your friends yeah i was there when it happened , i was there when the pole smashed trough the window and almost took my head..

The eye might hit as soon as 2am on saturday.

I've already been in a tropical storm with bad winds and believe me when you see your ping-pong table fly away and you never get it back and when the wind can push you in the air 20ft at a time.. sacary adventure.. lived it on an island in the caribean.

Rita's winds are already at 285 km/h (Katrina's max wind speed), up 20km/h from 6 hours ago. Experts say it is likely to increase even more. And it is more powerful than Katrina.

Adding it all up, they are saying that it's most likely that a lot of tornadoes will be created in Texas thanks to Rita.

If it was something smaller i wouldn't mind staying but this is an fusion bomb finding more and more hydrogen and moving towards Texas. The hurricane that hit Galvestone in 1900 was brutal. So the place has it's history..

Anyways all that to say.. get out of the way!

[PostManPat]

wtf, i don't remember massive hurricans happening every 2 weeks before??? Anyone know whats causing them all?

[hwacker]

It's Bush, Just ask any Liberal

[Regina]

I've been there....they call it an island?? It's just a slip of land made of sand and may end up being part of a beach in Houston. Rita is looking like a mean bitch!

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

wtf, i don't remember massive hurricans happening every 2 weeks before??? Anyone know whats causing them all?

Warm water. They happen here so frequently that they each storm gets a name from local languages. One time, Thai, the next Japanese, the next Indonesian etc., etc. Right now we have one to the north and one to the south of us.

[ShepherdsDog]

Listening to Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Some nut is blaming the hurricanes on energy surges from Neptune and Uranus. Asstrollojests

I always thought that incredible energy releases from Uranus were called lumberjack farts.

[Regina]

[Scape]

PostManPat PostManPat:

[huh] wtf, i don't remember massive hurricans happening every 2 weeks before??? Anyone know whats causing them all?

Global Warming & Hurricanes

Climate Change and Global Warming

Climate change marks dawn of man

New Scientist: Climate Change

Does global warming cause bad weather?

Causes of Climate Change Natural and Human causes


If I were to hazard a guess it would be god hates Bush.