Hurricane Rita Grand-Daddy of Storms
Stardate 4593.6
CTV - Hurricane Rita, now a Category 5 storm, is poised to smash into the coast between Texas and Louisiana. Over one and a half million people are fleeing so far before it hits land. Some of the winds are as high as 280 km/h and this could be one of the biggest storms of all time according to Steve Miller from the Canadian Hurricane Center.
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It has been downgraded to Category 4 again at lunch today...
CTV - Hurricane Rita, now a Category 5 storm, is poised to smash into the coast between Texas and Louisiana. Over one and a half million people are fleeing so far before it hits land. Some of the winds are as high as 280 km/h and this could be one of the biggest storms of all time according to Steve Miller from the Canadian Hurricane Center."The central pressure is stronger than what I saw with Katrina when it was in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico."Hopefully everyone gets out before it hits, and there are adequate safeguards in place to deal with the aftermath immediately!
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It has been downgraded to Category 4 again at lunch today...
posted by Zaphod at 11:39 AM
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