One double whammy ... do you want fries with that?

[unixronin]

Yup, Mama Nature's pissed all right.  Rita just made Category 5, with sustained winds of 165mph, and a lot of Gulf still to cross before she makes landfall.  As of 1455CST today, Rita was about 300 miles across, 755 miles ESE of Corpus Christi, TX, moving west at 13mph, eye pressure estimated at 944 millibars, 140mph winds.  An update as of 1528CDT puts the eye pressure at 914 millibars and dropping at 6 millibars per hour, which may be a record, with surface winds of 165mph sustained and gusts to 185mph.  (Thanks to greyman for pointing me at the update.)

This has got to be hell for the New Orleans folks who've already been evacuated once, and now have to evacuate again.  And you know what's worse?  What'll you bet me some hate-filled fundamentalist bastard is going to stand up on a pulpit somewhere and declare that some of the godless sinners of New Orleans escaped Katrina, and this is God trying to finish the job?

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Know what worries me? We might have to create a Category 6. I don't like the way Rita is shaping up. I hope I'm wrong.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking that myself -- that we're going to have to extend the scale. Sustained winds over 200mph seems like a good place to draw the line....

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

it's all them bad gays that escaped. you know the bad gays that have sex by the river and leave their condoms as ornaments?

god hates them all, just ask freddy phelps!

~wanders off chuckling~

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Personally, if there is a god, I suspect he probably ... well, may not hate Fred Phelps and his brood, but is doubtless deeply disappointed in them, and probably more than a little pissed off.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i hear that!