Here comes "Rita"!

[dj1470]

What has God got against the poor bastards in New Orleans and the rest of the U.S. gulf coast?

Now hurricane "Rita" has a good probability (40-50%) to hit New Orleans head on just three weeks after "Katrina". I mean come on - enough is enough. "Rita" is now a Level 1 closing in on the Florida Keys and it's estimated to be a level 3 by Wednesday.

"Run to the hills, Run for your life" Bruce Dickinson, 1985

 

[Esco!]

It wouldnt surprise me if some people still refuse to leave

 

[Misanthrope]

It wouldnt surprise me if some people still refuse to leave

Maybe they will leave since there's nothing left to loot.

 

[David Beckham 23]

It's amazing. My review gets deleted because I said ugly.People and children have died in N.O and people are making jokes.

 

[casey22]

Fill Up Your Gas Tanks Now Before It's Back To $1.25 !!!!!!

 

[dj1470]

Fill Up Your Gas Tanks Now Before It's Back To $1.25 !!!!!!

Exactly.

The oil companies are just loving these hurricanes. An awesome excuse to gough the shit out of the consumer. I wouldn't be surprised if it tops $1.50 by the weekend.

Talk about not caring about the people of the gulf coast.

 

[casey22]

It is now at 150 mph, just 5 short of a category 5

I thought there might be some relationship between the lack of oil spills in the past few years, and the large number of hurricanes. Some data suggests this might be true.
See the graph http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/oilspills.htm

I propose to dump megatons of vegetable/fish/canola oil into the gulf before hurricane season and see what happens. With a thin layer, there won't be enough fuel to grow a cat 5.
Or every guy in the USA could jerk off into the gulf
Or drain the oil from Bush's hair

 

[langeweile]

It wouldnt surprise me if some people still refuse to leave

I have to ask this question...who is the babe in your sig line?

 

[the rusty tromb]

Whoever is in charge of naming these hurricanes is doing a horrible job. Rita? Sounds like a fat asian woman with a hair lip. I think Rocco is a much more appropriate name for a hurricane. Rocco sounds like a thug who would kill you for lookin' at him the wrong way.

Thumbs down on naming the latest hurricane Rita.

 

[Gord's Bro]

I propose to dump megatons of vegetable/fish/canola oil into the gulf before hurricane season and see what happens. With a thin layer, there won't be enough fuel to grow a cat 5.
Or every guy in the USA could jerk off into the gulf
Or drain the oil from Bush's hair

Speaking of megatons, why doesn't Bush just declare Rita a terrorist and bomb the friggin' hell out of it???

 

[Cinema Face]

I guess Bush will be blamed for causing this one too.

 

[stang]

I filled my tank today, $.98. Next one will hurt.

 

[Jade4u]

Looks like it is a category 5 now and is still stregnthening at 165mph

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news

 

[Esco!]

The scale doesnt go that high (at least not yet), but if it strengthens to 175 MPH it could be the first ever category 6 hurricane

 

[Asterix]

It should slow down when it gets to the cooler water near the coast, but will likely still be at least category 4 when it hits land. The size of this storm is just massive, covering half the gulf, and has now been called the third largest storm on record. This is goiing to be bad no matter where it hits, but God forbid it hooks to the right and lands in Louisiana again. I'm not sure they could take it.

 

[Esco!]

It should slow down when it gets to the cooler water near the coast, but will likely still be at least category 4 when it hits land.

I hope you're right because right now its windspeed is 165 MPH and thats 10 MPH
away from becoming a hypothetical category 6

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml

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[Asterix]

I hope you're right because right now its windspeed is 165 MPH and thats 10 MPH
away from becoming a hypothetical category 6

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml

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If this is any indication that the warming of the oceans would produce bigger and more intense hurricanes, it looks like the scientists were right. You gotta feel for the people who were evacuated from New Orleans, wound up in Houston, and are now being evacuated again. They must think they've dropped into hell.

 

[baltimoron]

Astrodome

If this is any indication that the warming of the oceans would produce bigger and more intense hurricanes, it looks like the scientists were right. You gotta feel for the people who were evacuated from New Orleans, wound up in Houston, and are now being evacuated again. They must think they've dropped into hell.

I was thinking the same thing as well. I wonder if the Astrodome will meet the same fate as the Superdome.

 

[Esco!]

There was talk that even New York City could possibly be hit with a massive hurricane someday

 

[Asterix]

Not good. They are now saying that if the hurricane hits where expected in Texas, there will still be a rise in the water around New Orleans of four feet or more caused by the storm surge. If the already damaged levees and canal walls don't hold, the city could fill up all over again.