Rita hitting Galveston like Katrina hit New Orleans

[link to www.intellicast.com]

don´t know about you. but this thing is going right towards Galveston

But Galveston not below sea level.Besides it will make landfall at the border.

FOX news guy just said the center will hit almost mid point between Galveston and Port Arthur, with 100+ mph winds 30 miles west and 70 miles east of the eye wall.

ok good - that´s good news.

thanks

You people make me laugh.

This is just a hurricane people. They happen almost every year.

Katrina was so devastaing simply because New Orleans is below sea level. This was no secret. They have been dodging this bullet for the entire life of the city.

The main difference with Rita is the size of the population that is being evacuated. There will be problems. They will be highlighted over and over on TV. There will also be many heros and great deeds that will go unreported.

24 hour news networks and news websites are over-sensationalizing it all just to get ratings.

In the next 24 hours, the storm will come ashore, it will diminish quickly over arid texas.

Trees will be uprooted. Branches and shingles will fly. A few roofs will blow off. The tidal surge will cause flood damage and wash a few builings right off theiir foundations. Sporadic tornadoes will spawn and cause some destruction.

People will return and begin cleanup. Temporary curfews will be imposed on the hardest hit areas. Utilities will be restored. Roofers will have a hey day. Chainsaw sales will skyrocket. Most schools and businesses will be reopen within a week.

I have been through many of these storms... grew up on the south Atlantic seaboard. Never saw any feds (just National Guard posted in the immediate aftermath to prevent looting), never expected them.

Galveston, Oh Galveston

I grew up on the S. Atlantic coast also, Jacksonville, FL, and lived through several of them, BUT 20% of the US refining capacity is NOT on the S. Atlantic coast, just a bunch of hotels, restaurants and condo´s....THATS the difference this time, IMHO

"I grew up on the S. Atlantic coast also, Jacksonville, FL, and lived through several of them, BUT 20% of the US refining capacity is NOT on the S. Atlantic coast, just a bunch of hotels, restaurants and condo´s....THATS the difference this time, IMHO"

The refineries will be the first thing to resume operation. There will be a temporary bump in prices. The sky is not falling.

"the sky is not falling".

right, right. keep telling yourself that.

Hurricanes hit New orleans and Texas EVERY Year.

yeah, um okay.

951...right you are....look at this oil rig map that was on another thread

[link to gom.rigzone.com]

the way Rita is being steered right now is that the NE quadrant, the most powerful part of the storm, is going to hit the largest number of rigs, and then run right into Port Arthur, where someone else said, has a huge amount of refining capacity.

I have posted on several threads over the past week, that its NOT production or availibility that is the issue, its REFINING CAPACITY.

OPEC can open the floodgates and give us a million bbl more per day, but if we can´t refine it and get it into the system what good is it.

An oil industry analyst said last week that we are already 1/3rd shy of the needed NG supply for this winter. Huge amounts of NG come from this area.

End of story.