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Hurricane Rita

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Um... Guys???

INCOMING!!!!!!

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Rita is an historic Category 5 hurricane, now packing sustained winds
of 170 mph with gusts to near 215 mph. This is the season's second catastrophic hurricane. As of 8:00 a.m. EDT, Rita was centered near 25.2 north and 88.3 west. This places Rita 595 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas and 490 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas. The minimum central pressure was reported by hurricane hunter aircraft at 907 millibars (26.78 inches of mercury). This storm has been the 3rd most intense Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded. Rita is currently moving to the west-northwest at 9 mph. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles from the center of circulation. The storm will fluctuate in strength over next 24 hours.

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So I go to the Weather Channel to check our Rita's status, and they have meteorologist Stephanie Abrams on the Galveston Island beach, and she looks very good in clam-diggers and a plain gray T-shirt.

And I'm thinking, man when the Hurricane gets closer she'll look even better when that T-shirt gets wet!!

Is that wrong?
 
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BB73 said:
So I go to the Weather Channel to check our Rita's status, and they have meteorologist Stephanie Abrams on the Galveston Island beach, and she looks very good in clam-diggers and a plain gray T-shirt.

And I'm thinking, man when the Hurricane gets closer she'll look even better when that T-shirt gets wet!!

Is that wrong?
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No. What's wrong is not posting a picture!

<IMG height=72 alt="Stephanie Abrams

in Galveston, Texas" src="http://image.weather.com/web/multimedia/images/miscellaneous/052209abrams.jpg" width=107 border=0>Sorry, this is the best I could find of here on the beach in Texas.
 
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What I want to know is how do you get that unlucky job to be that reporter.

You boss comes in and says. Yeah it's a huge hurricane, it's going to do a ton of damamge, unfortunatly lots of lives may be lost if people don't leave town.............so who wants to go cover it?
 
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buckeyefool said:
What I want to know is how do you get that unlucky job to be that reporter.

You boss comes in and says. Yeah it's a huge hurricane, it's going to do a ton of damamge, unfortunatly lots of lives may be lost if people don't leave town.............so who wants to go cover it?
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A good chunck of those reporters are either newbies or free lancers that the networks or news channels offer big bucks too. I have a freind who is a free lance videographer who went to New Orleans because CNN paid him very well. He's done at least three Hurricanes... don't know if he's going to Texas because he still in NO.
 
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craigw99 said:
This will die down before it hits land.

It would take near-perfect to perfect conditions for this to stay a cat-5. and perfect conditions only last for short periods of time. plus the further west you go in the gulf, the cooler the water.

Im projecting a cat 2-3 at landfall.
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Looks like it has been downgraded to a cat 3 (thank god)

so whoever dinged me for that post can eat a bag of dicks. :)
 
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