For the last three days we have had rain and winds coming from Rita. I am a hundred and thirty miles North of Miami on the Atlantic Coast, I guess I am four hundred miles from the Hurricane. (See the lake about one third of the way up the state of Florida, northern edge of the lake but on the Atlantic.)
As she moved from the Atlantic into the Gulf of Mexico she began to intensify and grow larger, so even though it has moved four hundred miles since we first began to feel it, we are still in its circle of influence.
She will be a big one when it gets to Texas. Looks like it will mess with the Corpus Christi and Galveston, and cause flooding in Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas Fort Worth. Rain could endanger recovery in New Orleans. Houston? Depends on where it comes ashore.
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