Swanky Conservative

Here’s the latest satellite image of Hurricane Rita from the GOES Storm Floater 1.

I took the 3-day forecast track image and overlayed it with the GOES image so you can better visualize the impact area in addition to the storm’s track.

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I got an email from Greg at Down deep in Texas: The View from Waco and he’s proposing offering guest-blogging to bloggers whose servers go down ot who want to email in reports about what’s going on.
Sounds like a plan to me. Anyone got thoughts on this? Comments?
It’s still to early to know [...]

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Brendan Loy reports that one off the new forecast models still shows Galveston as being in the track of Rita. There’s still 24 hours or so till this storm makes landfall, so it’s too early to relax if you’re more near Matagorda Bay than Beaumont.
Watching the traffic shots of everyone sitting bumper-to-bumper, I have to [...]

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Hurricane Rita just passed Katrina and Allen to take the spot of third-most severe Atlantic storm in recorded history in terms of barometic pressure.
Hurricane RITA Public Advisory, from the National Weather Service:
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…165 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…898 MB.

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The National Weather Service just issued an update on Hurricane Rita:

DROPSONDE DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AT 416 PM CDT…2116Z…INDICATED THE CENTRAL PRESSURE HAS FALLEN TO 904 MB…OR 26.69 INCHES. THIS MAKES RITA THE FIFTH MOST INTENSE HURRICANE IN TERMS OF PRESSURE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN.
RITA CURRENTLY RANKS BEHIND HURRICANE [...]

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Hurricane Rita is now a category five storm. The latest forecast track has Rita making landfall just north of Matagorda Bay, close to Freeport, Angleton, Lake Jackson, etc. Should Rita make landfall in Matagorda Bay, the storm surge will carry right up the bay, dangerously close to Victoria. This track for Rita also carries the [...]

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Houston Mayor Bill White is calling for a voluntary evacuation of residents in the storm surge areas and the 100-year flood plain. KHOU has a map of these areas.
Corpus Christy Mayor said on Fox News that mandatory evacuations of “high-profile” vehicles has been called for Mustang Island and Port Aransas. This includes boats, RV’s, [...]

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Rita is now a category 4 storm and she’s heading for Texas.
The Houston Chronicle has a storm blog up. I think the WWL blog and NOLA.com blog were a hit.
Texas Division of Emergency Management issued recommended evacuation routes for people in the forecasted landfall areas.
Here’s the lastest forecast track.
The article in Sunday’s Statesman [...]

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