The Houston area has been such a Blessing to a whole lot of people where the Government failed more people than we may ever know.
Now a unheard of 2nd category 5 Hurricane is making a straightway course to Houston with New Orleans on the outside of the predicted path.
A sustained wind speed of 175 mph with gusts exceeding 200 mph. Folks, Hurricanes are nothing but massive tornado's that are worse due to length of time, rain, wind etc.etc.etc.
New Orleans can not take more than 3inches of rain for those levees to burst again....
Let those other folks stay, throw a swimming pool party and surf out in it.
I pray for the loss of no one, but lets be real.
I ponder whether the Mayor of New Orleans has been hasty in allowing people back into the area. A lot of blame goes to the government, but I sure saw a lot of scenes of many buses ruined sitting under water. Anyway......
I hope and pray that people have not forgotten Hurricane Katrina and the many that stayed for whatever reasons. maybe we need to tell a lot of people they won the lotto in another state. Figure more people would find a way to leave then wouldn't you say?
Houston has lowlying areas also as areas of Mississipi, Alabama and New Orleans.
There are a lot of people I have noticed here that live in the State of TX with quite a few that live directly in Houston.
Many students are in school and there are quite a few colleges, some HBCU'S that are in the cone of uncertainty in the way Hurricane Rita will go.
This has been an unprecedented Hurricane season with the threat for the 1st time ever of us going all the way through the alphabet of Hurricane names.
I have been following Hurricane season since I was 7 or 8 yrs old, when I first started getting those Hurricane tracking charts from the old Winn Dixie back home in Florida.
I had never seen a storm as powerful as Katrina with the exception of huricane Gilbert back in 1988 with ustained winds of 190 mph that devastated areas of Mexico, and even in that storm, the damage was less in those areas that are not near the technological levels of the U.S. (Hint).
I have certainly never seen a Hurricane Barometric pressure dip below 900 millibars. Hurricane Rita is sitting at 897 millibars. Only 2 other storms are stated to have had lower barometric pressures and this was before the advanced meteorological expertise we have today. In other words, history is taking their words for it back in the early 1900's.
I stated bck in 1992 that Hurricane Andrew was not a category 4 but a category 5. 10 yrs later Hurricane Andrew was clasified as a Cat 5 because the calculations were off for the altitude the winds were measured.
*I state here that Hurricane Katrina was a category 5 that even the meteorolgists botched this one. Just look at the damage.
Katrina set a record for storm surge.
Hurricane Camille had been used as the standard for most powerful storm ever. Well the same places that were buried under 30 feet of water by Katrina only had 20 inches of water in Camille, think about it.
Now the unthinkable has happened, a Hurricane more powerful than Katrina?! In the same yr, weeks apart? "God" trying to tell people something that will hear.
I guestimate that the winds in Rita are more around 190-200mph sustained. Barometric pressure in a storm is the truest indicator of a Hurricanes strength.
Katrina was at around 909mb, Rita is at 897mb and pressures are continuing to lower thus far. You do the math.
Rita is also a very large storm, even a side glance of this storm could prove devastating. The path for impacts of this storm has now shifted to Southern Louisiana. Please remember what is stated that if the state receives mote than 3 inches of rain.....
This is the most powerful Hurricane (Rita) I have ever sen with air pressures low enough to pop ear drums.
Also folks a lot of you do not know this, but Hurricane season ends 31 November. We still have 2 months of above normal water and ait temps. Makes one dwell on the phenomena many have been preaching about global warming.
I thot the record year of Hurricanes (19) in 1995 would never be touched again, well....
Lastly as the Hurricane season progresses, the areas where hurricanes form more abundantly shifts also.
In other words as we go through the months of Oct and Nov the season shifts predominately to the Gulf of Mexico i.e. the gulf coast states.
Also the peak Hurricane Season is Mid Sept-Mid Oct. We are just getting to the seson where the highest number of storms form.
In other words pray without ceasing, because it ain't over yet.
Many lives, property etc. are devastated in record numbers due to lack of knowledge which destroys.
I am sharing my 2cents for the love of people.
Please be safe.
I mean well for all.
"God" Bless
Sincerely
William
Posted By: WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III
Thursday, September 22nd 2005 at 2:50AM
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