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To: tejek who wrote (252162)9/20/2005 3:32:11 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574061
 
re: This is not good......Rita is already a CAT 2...

wunderground.com

Yes and she has almost the exact same glide path as Katrina... except she starts out farther south.

And yeah, it's been a busy year in the tropics:

wunderground.com

John



To: tejek who wrote (252162)9/20/2005 4:06:48 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574061
 
"She has ample time to ramp up to a 4 before hitting the TX or MX coast line."

It's almost a Cat. 3. Well on track for a Cat. 5 by landfall. The nightmare is that it does an Ophelia. Just lurking offshore and ripping up the beaches, then the dunes and after that the marshes and little towns behind the dunes.