'Heart Of Gold'
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: San Francisco, May 19-21, 2006! Everything else, go here! Swag!
Oh, man. From my husband:
As of 4:05pm, eastern, Rita is a Category 5.
And it looks like it'll hit Crawford just about dead on, after it goes over the coast..
TWO Cat 5 storms in less than a month? Everyone in Texas, please be safe and please take care.
TWO Cat 5 storms in less than a month?
Which makes, what, 5 in the last 35 years?
Well, actually Katrina was a 4 when it made landfall--it was only more destructive than 5's like Andrew and Camille because it hit such a vulnerable area and because it was unusually large.
Susan, Katrina was at the uppermost limit of Cat 4 - something like a six mile an hour difference, and she had horrendous backdrafts.
This one's going to suck. Damn it, I have friends in Houston.
My sister and my niece live in Houston.
Well, crappity, ND. Much steer-clear-of-Houston~ma for them. Although, what I'd really like to see is for Rita to just fall apart at the seams and wimp out on us. Not like it hasn't happened before, but I've no idea if the weather is such as to encourage that. It's been a very hot summer everywhere. I feel bad for the Texans of all communities right now.
I know it was a bad Cat 4, but my inner pedant has to point out that it wasn't a Cat 5. I'm the same way about people calling the 30.6" snowstorm I experienced in 1996 a 36" snowstorm, or about authors of my era who put rifles in the hands of regiments who were armed with muskets. It probably means I have the soul of an accountant, but I can't resist doing it.
sits in the pedant corner with Susan. measures to make sure it's a 90 degree angle.
Having lived through earthquakes of various ratings I could give a rat's ass what they measure on the scale. It's the damage that they do. Scales and ratings don't kill people and destroy lives.
Having lived through earthquakes of various ratings I could give a rat's ass what they measure on the scale. It's the damage that they do. Scales and ratings don't kill people and destroy lives.
What. he. said.