A picture is worth a thousand words (Rita Live Pic)

[MazeRat7]

Note: Bookmark this thread. This picutre will automatically update each time you "refresh" showing Rita's progress.

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[wakeme2008]

1. I like this one better

as of 6:00EST

[MichiganVote]

2. Looks like its going to hit Louisiana

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. More likely Texas

Most models take it right over Crawford.

[MichiganVote]

7. Yeah, I read that

[theHandpuppet]

36. It's heading WEST, not North.

Jeeze, folks, get a grip on geography.

[trekbiker]

41. its starting to turn north.. look closely at the end of this loop

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-vis-loop.html

[IN-dem]

51. It looks like it is right in Louisiana. nt

[jackster]

9. oh my

that looks like a fetus and when the fetus hits Texas it will be God's punishment for allowing all fetuses to grow up to be Republican Texans.

[txindy]

14. Gee, that was clever

Dead wrong, too, or have you forgotten all about Camp Casey? Ask Cindy Sheehan if all Texans are repubs.

[jackster]

40. Unfortunately most Texans are republicans...

or at least they vote that way. I've met few Texans that I liked. I'm sure that there are wonderful Texans, however, they are definitely in the minority.

This is the state that gave us GWB and Tom Delay - you can't get much worse than that. Therefore, I reserve the right to blame Texas for getting us in the mess we're in right now!

[mourningdove92]

43. I'm a Texan and a yellow dog democrat.

What is your purpose in deliberately insulting me?

Texas is not the only state that voted for smirk,you know.

[Rainscents]

18. I like this link very much!

[IN-dem]

44. kick

[DrZeeLit]

46. that so looks like it's heading for LA again... huh?

[IN-dem]

50. kick

[blue agave]

3. Nice pics - I think Rita is pissed ...

she is going to make a bee-line for tx and hover over crawford.

[MazeRat7]

6. Yeah.. we are gonna get wet here in Austin this weekend.

Real Wet. Not to mention ruining the ACL (Austin City Limits) Festival and all the flooding.... *grrrrrr

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[blue agave]

19. what is the ACL Festival ? I don't think we see that on tv. eom

[MazeRat7]

20. Its a multi-day music festival of previous ACL artists...

Here is a link that will show you this years line up...
http://www.austincitylimits.com/default.asp
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[hippiegranny]

5. sholy hit

looks like florida is taking a pounding right now.

[LittleClarkie]

8. Not directly at least

Maybe it will make a big curve around.

I'll pray, anyway... even though it reminds me too much of Pat Robertson.

[OxQQme]

10. Cuba gets it again

We hardly ever hear of the Cubans. They lay right there. What do they do to prepare?

[Minstrel Boy]

12. Their preparations are amazing.

I think they evacuated 600,000 for Hurricane Ivan, and lost less than a dozen lives.

[Silverhair]

25. Easy evacuation.

Get 30 feet above high tide sea level and in a sturdy building and you are OK. Cuban terrain makes the 30ft part easy.

[LittleClarkie]

13. I think some of those smaller islands build with concrete or cinder block

for one thing. Surely there are building materials better able to withstand a hurricane then your standard stuff.

[Zynx]

11. Has a nice shape to it.

Too bad that's horrible news for Texas.

[MazeRat7]

16. Yeah, I'm in Austin and this is going to suck...

Besides is ACL Fest...."Austin City Limits Festival"

Just look at who/was playing...

http://www.austincitylimits.com/default.asp

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[FreedomAngel82]

22. Wow

Nice list! Something for everybody!

[txindy]

15. Bookmarked. Thanks for this link!

It certainly looks like Rita is a storm that will touch as many states as Katrina did. I wonder what Pickles will call this one? Rinna? Ruth? Rummy? ;)

[Rainscents]

17. Thanks, I bookmark this tread!

[Sydnie]

21. Kick n/t

[anarchy1999]

23. Oh my god! This is not good.

Oh S, where's the tin foil? Damn. This is huge, this is bad. Deep breaths. Hang on Texas.

[IN-dem]

24. kick

[Zynx]

26. Tin foil? I don't understand.

[txindy]

31. You're not the only one.

:shrug:

[Fleshdancer]

27. It will only get bigger

It's just now entering the warm Gulf. DU needs a massive roll call for everyone living in SE Texas. :cry:

[KittyWampus]

29. Gloria, I'mgoing to do this.

[Fleshdancer]

32. I propose cross posting in both GD and Texas forum.

DUers can bookmark both threads to keep tabs on everyone.

[HeeBGBz]

28. Run Awayyyyyy!!!

Just a suggestion.

[txindy]

30. And a fine suggestion it is, too.

This storm is deja vu all over again.

[Mizmoon]

33. It's over Cancun isn't it?

How is Mexico, I wonder?

[Joe the Revelator]

35. Look at the maps...

Its bypassing the yucatan peninsula.

[Zynx]

37. Cancun already got hit by Emily this year.

[hatrack]

34. Does anybody remember 1988? Does anybody remember James Hansen?

Does anybody remember his testimony to Congress, when he stated that an unambiguous signal had emerged from the statistical noise showing that the Earth was warming rapidly?

Does anybody remember how G.H.W. Bush promised to counter the greenhouse effect with the "White House effect?"

Does anybody remember how the Greening Earth Society and the Cato Institute and AEI and the Frontiers of Freedom Foundation and all of their trained seals on the radio and in the press squawked and squealed and spent millions of dollars and decades smearing and deriding and dismissing climate science even as the scale of what was coming became unmistakably clear and as the science supporting Hansen's initial conclusions became overwhelming in its validity and consensus down through the years ?

Does anybody remember the worst-case scenarios of forest fires and crop failures and droughts, of the increased spread of disease and the collapse of fisheries and plant and animal populations in the face of climate breakdown?

Does anybody remember the Larsen A & B Ice Shelves, the Quellcaya glacier and the snows of Kilimanjaro?

Does anybody remember predictions of intense Category 4 and 5 hurricanes becoming routine?

Welcome to the world predicted 17 years ago, the world which arrived unnoticed while we sat on our collective ass, mesmerized by which celebrities were fucking other celebrities, by Oval Office blowjobs, by which professional sports team beat other professional sports teams and by whether the words "Under God" should be allowed in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I guess we were busy.

[blue agave]

38. kick

[Theres-a]

39. kick

[IN-dem]

42. kick

[IN-dem]

45. this deserves another kick tonight

[tedzbear]

47. The eye wall has collapsed!

Does this mean Rita is in the middle of an eye wall replacement process or does it mean her intensity is dropping to tropical storm status?

Any experts out there???

[CatBoreal]

48. Is that ANOTHER storm coming up behind her?

[donheld]

49. Horrible but fascinating.

I hope all most out, and the rest are safe.

[doublethink]

52. Damn .... still looks like a buzz saw even over land ..... n.t.

[IN-dem]

53. Click on the second post and watch it. It looks like it is hitting LA

more than Texas.

[Zinfandel]

54. Holy shit,

This bullshit actually gets play, cuz the media told you so?

It was a big wind and rain storm!

Nothing more...

Poor Bush is sitting and waiting and hoping for more!

It was nothing...But at least it will keep the protest in DC, LA, SF and Seattle, out of of the "news"...A fucking CAt 2 Plus... It was NOT a Cat 3 - total bullshit! Only tree branches have been up rooted! Whoops, a few signs too. Lots of rain and wind.

Poor Bush, Rove though, will find somewhere to produce the dunce today!

[expatriate]

55. There is a twenty foot storm surge

which is going to affect the Lake Charles area. There are smaller, but significant rises all along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas, including the areas that were hit by Katrina. Storm surges are also rising in Lake Ponchartrain, increasing the flooding in New Orleans.

Sorry, that is not just a big rain and wind storm. It is going to mean further devastation and loss of life, as well as damage to refineries and natural gas production.

Sorry, it's just a bigger story than a protest. Any protest, short of an armed insurrection in the streets of Washington, D.C.

The protest wouldn't have gotten dookey in coverage anyway. If it wasn't the storm getting top coverage, it would have been something in Iraq, or another missing white blonde girl.