Cat 5
As the death toll from Hurricane Katrina passed 1,000, oil prices hit $68 a barrel and Rita, potentially more powerful, bore down on the Texas coast. It is expected to hit land on Saturday. Officials in New Orleans issued a warning that even 3in of rain could overwhelm the damaged protective levees. Army engineers worked round the clock to make repairs.Rita, with wind speeds of 165mph, is expected to make landfall southeast of Houston, near the coastal city of Galveston, the scene of a hurricane that killed up to 12,000 people in 1900. Standing in its presumed path are three of the country’s five largest refineries.
times of londonLooks as if the folks in Texas have learned the lessons Katrina taught. They are in full evacuation and they are making sure the sick, the old and the poor are at the front of the line.But you can’t evacuate oil refineries.
Update 21/12/05: “While looking for something else, I discovered your web site “Archive for the ‘Rita’ Category” (URL = http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/?cat=20). In it you list the number dead from Galveston, Texas’ 1900 storm at 12,000. Please correct that to 6-8 thousand.
Sign me a Galvestonian with great-grandparents who remember that storm.
Written by jay on September 22nd, 2005 with
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