Not again

Sep. 22nd, 2005 09:03 am
gwynhefar: (DW Hiding)
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With the effects of Katrina still a major influence on daily life down here in Louisiana, attention is turning to Rita with a philosophy of "not again". New Orleans, which had just begun to allow some people back into the city, is again under mandatory evacuation -- the levees are barely repaired, still leaking, and couldn't withstand a particularly strong thunderstorm right now, much less even the tiniest edge of a category 5 hurricane.

In terms of size, windspeed, and overall destruction potential, they are saying that Rita is *worse* than Katrina. Katrina destroyed New Orleans and much of the Mississippi coast as a category 4 hurricane (it downgraded from category 5 shortly before landfall). Rita is currently a category 5, and set to hit Galveston and Houston head-on.

If Rita doesn't downgrade before making landfall, it will be the only time in US history -- since records began being kept in 1851 -- that the US was hit by both a category 4 and a category 5 in one season.

This is the new future, folks. Global warming and coastal wetland erosion have conspired to make the hurricane season longer, and the hurricanes stronger, more frequent, and more devastating.

We will be keeping a close eye on this storm over here. Even though it's set to hit Texas, there's always the chance it'll turn east and hit Louisiana.

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