Pixies CD ~ Rita

[PantyFanatic]

Rita is the next of this seasons probable hurricanes (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/sfl-rita,0,1632987.story) and is hopefully going to slide past the Florida Keys. We have quite a number of Pixies in southern Florida that I hope WILL check in with good news after she passes them. :mad:

Then end of this week may have more of our attention (http://weather.sun-sentinel.com/tropical/tracking/at200518_model.html) for new arrivals in western Louisiana and Texas.:rolleyes2 I hope NOT!

[LixyChick]

Dunno if it's true...but I've heard they are evacuating the Keys. Only one road in and one road out...so I hope they are doing it early enough! We lived in Key Largo...the first Key from the mainland town of Homestead (which was hit pretty hard by Andrew) after traveling a stretch of about 7 miles. But, Key West is 100 miles of road before you get to Key Largo, and nary a place on that whole length where it becomes a double wide highway. Never encountered a hurricane while we lived there...but I was glad to be closest to mainland security if we had of.

We have friends in Key Largo still...and I haven't heard anything from them...yet. Keep good thoughts peeps!

And to those in Rita's path...TAKE GOOD CARE!

[Scarecrow]

Rita is now a Cat 1 hurricane and may grow to a 3, 4 or 5.

[Fangtasia]

Please take care!

[maddy]

I just read this morning that Rita has been upgraded to a Category 4. I hope coastal Texans (and displaced Katrina evacuees) are heeding the warnings and heading inland

[maddy]

Oh, and any chance of an update now that she's gone past Florida as to Pixies in the path?

[PantyFanatic]

....Current projections (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8030) predict Rita will hit the Texas coast between Houston and Corpus Christi late on Friday or early Saturday. Galveston, on the coast near Houston, was the site of the most devastating hurricane to hit the US coast, which killed some 8000 people when it hit without warning in 1900. It is now the site of a level 4 biosafety laboratory, a little over a kilometre from the Gulf coast. But officials seem more worried about vital oil-industry infrastructure in Houston and Galveston, and the area around New Orleans that is still assessing damage from Hurricane Katrina.

The next 48 hours will tell us where life and safety could be in danger. After recent events, I expect ‘officials’ to compensate on the safe side and citizens to give a renewed attention to warnings. My best thoughts for uninterrupted FACTS may be http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/index_hls3.shtml .


I am sorry we do not have any members in the Texas/Louisiana region that have given me permission to plot their location on our maps. :( It goes without saying that our family has genuine concern about our members and we implore you to PLEASE, at the very minimum, let us know you are safe after an event of this nature. We STILL have at least one member from New Orleans that is causing much anxiety for many of us.

Many very real thoughts and prayers are with all our members that will come to know Rita in the next week.

[scotzoidman]

Based on what I'm seeing & hearing, (& also from Wicked Wanda's post as well), the same folks that had to evacuate before from Katrina are going to have to do so again...not to mention the millions more that are in the wider path that Rita is aiming for...last night the news reported that while most gulf coast residents are being evacuated to Arkansas & Nebraska (that should be far enough inland ;) ), TN is once again taking a fair number of people in at various shelters around the state...

[PantyFanatic]

We are fortunate to have today’s technology, the awareness of the population and the fact that spot lights are on the recent ineptness of government, as Rita closes in to effect peoples lives forever. With all this, it is still an enormous threat to many lives and the losses will be great. Our hopes and prayers are with the Pixies we know are there and all the people this will affect.

The current forecast (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/WTUS84-KHGX.shtml) predicts top ranking devastation for a WIDE area and on the heels of a equal ranking event with Katrina.


.INTENSITY...
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS WERE ESTIMATED AT 140 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS.
RITA IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-
SIMPSON SCALE. ONLY MINOR FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY ARE EXPECTED
DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

...PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

.EVACUATION INFORMATION...
EVACUATIONS ARE CURRENTLY UNDER WAY. EVACUATIONS SHOULD BE COMPLETE BY
NOON FRIDAY AS TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD
ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS FRIDAY.
……………..

I am trying to confirm radio reports of renewed flooding already taking place in New Orleans. There is going to be very difficult times ahead of us. :(

[FallenAngel5]

I just read on CNN.com that there was flooding over the levees in New Orleans.

[wyndhy]

the immense amount of rain that will eventually make it's way to the mississippi will at least help wash some of the contamination near the gulf into the ocean.

stay safe people

[jseal]

FallenAngel5,

Yes mam. It seems that New Orleans has become another of Rita's victims.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4276028.stm