How will Rita be remembered

f5 · #1 Postby f5 » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:32 pm

897 mb monster(which beats Katrina's 902 mb which was a shortlived gom pressure record)
175 mph same as Katrina
and most of all she will be remembered for adding more salt to the wounds in an already destroyed N.O.

djtil · #2 Postby **djtil** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:34 pm

who's rita?

MiamiensisWx · #3 Postby **MiamiensisWx** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:36 pm

djtil wrote:who's rita?

f5 · #4 Postby f5 » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:41 pm

the storm Rita unless its that person on MSNBC with a frog's voice

djtil · #5 Postby **djtil** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:45 pm

how does she have a job that revolves around her voice? i guess noone listens to msnbc anyway...but still...the fcc should get involved.

MiamiensisWx · #6 Postby **MiamiensisWx** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:46 pm

Rita will be remembered for all of the above as well as also because some of Rita's worst effects were far from the main center and some of the main outer bands. In fact, a very bad storm surge was recorded in many coastal areas of western and central Louisiana.

GalvestonDuck · #7 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:54 pm

No doubt she'll be remembered here for the evacuation hoo-haa.

stormie_skies · #8 Postby **stormie_skies** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:42 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:No doubt she'll be remembered here for the evacuation hoo-haa.

I couldn't agree more .....I know thats the part I will remember, anyways.... :roll:

Recurve · #9 Postby **Recurve** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:50 pm

For the horrible devastation of small towns in Acadiana. The second of a terrible one-two punch with Katrina against the Cajuns and others in the small towns of Terrebonne, Plaquemines, Cameron, and the other SW LA parishes.

#10 Postby **skysummit** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:53 pm

Many towns around me are still under many feet of water. Rita may have hit far away, but her effects were widespread.

Recurve · #11 Postby **Recurve** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:58 pm

I heard on NPR today of a visit by officials and some residents of Cameron parish to either Cameron or Holly Beach. They said there is...nothing...left.
They were at first hopeful, seeing a few roofs from the air -- and you think a house survived, one man said. But when they got onto the ground, they found only houses washed away, roofs without houses, total destruction.

#12 Postby **simplykristi** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:44 pm

That's so sad about Holly Beach and Cameron.

Kristi

wxmann_91 · #13 Postby **wxmann_91** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:49 pm

897 mb pressure

Complete destruction in coastal Louisiana

Situation in New Orleans exacerbated

Mass exodus out of coastal TX and LA - biggest evacuation in U.S. history

Oil refinery scare

Was caused by Global Warming :lol:

canegrl04 · #14 Postby **canegrl04** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:52 pm

Here in Texas,Rita will be remebered for massive traffic jams all the way to Dallas,the saga of the Beaumont bus carrying evacuees who got turned away every where they went around Dallas,and was forced to go to a jail for shelter,and the bus that exploded

scostorms · #15 Postby **scostorms** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:57 pm

I'll remember Rita for the evacuations. Louisiana evacuations weren't made public, here I was panicking thinking everyone was still in Lake Charles Area and they got the worst of Rita.

timNms · #16 Postby **timNms** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:40 pm

Rita will be remembered by:

mass evacuations
exploding bus
pressure
winds
destruction to LA/TX coastlines
added insult to New Orleans
numerous tornadoes in Mississippi, one of which claimed a life near Belzoni

SouthernWx · #17 Postby **SouthernWx** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:06 pm

As the most intense Gulf of Mexico hurricane of record......and the third most intense Atlantic basin hurricane of record. Katrina and Rita have re-written the record book when it comes to Atlantic hurricanes (just as Dennis and Emily re-wrote the July record book for the same subject).

Most intense Atlantic basin hurricanes of record:

1) 888 mb/ 26.22" Gilbert (1988)
2) 892 mb/ 26.35" Labor Day hurricane (1935)
3) 897 mb/ 26.49" Rita (2005)
4) 899 mb/ 26.55" Allen (1980)
5) 902 mb/ 26.64" Katrina (2005)
6) 905 mb/ 26.73" Camille (1969)
7) 905 mb/ 26.75" Mitch (1998)
8) 910 mb/ 26.87" Ivan (2004)
9) 914 mb/ 27.00" Janet (1955)
10) 915 mb/ 27.02" Isabel (2003)

PW

#18 Postby **wlfpack81** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:12 pm

djtil wrote:who's rita?

Go and say that to the people in SW LA and parts of NE TX whose homes etc. were damaged from this storm. :roll:

arkess7 · #19 Postby **arkess7** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:02 pm

wxmann_91 wrote:897 mb pressure

Complete destruction in coastal Louisiana

Situation in New Orleans exacerbated

Mass exodus out of coastal TX and LA - biggest evacuation in U.S. history

Oil refinery scare

Was caused by Global Warming

yup, yea ,yes, and for sure.,.......global warming...naaahhhhhh........just mother nature....

hicksta · #20 Postby **hicksta** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:03 pm

stormie_skies wrote:
GalvestonDuck wrote:No doubt she'll be remembered here for the evacuation hoo-haa.

I couldn't agree more .....I know thats the part I will remember, anyways....

yea but its a story youl tell your grandkids and friends and have many laughs about the 27 hour drive to dallas.

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