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Rita: Category 3 Category 4

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This all sounds eerily familiar.

KEY WEST, Fla. - Residents of the Florida Keys exhaled after Hurricane Rita largely spared the island chain, while those in Texas and already-battered Louisiana fretted the strengthening storm could become a Katrina-esque monster and target them by week’s end.

Rita was upgraded to a Category 3 storm early Wednesday with 120 mph winds and forecasters said it could further intensify, sparking an order for mandatory evacuations in New Orleans and Galveston, Texas.

Associated Press: Rita Upgraded to Category 3 Hurricane

UPDATE

KEY WEST, Fla. - Rita intensified into a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday with wind of 135 mph, deepening concerns that the storm could devastate coastal Texas and already-battered Louisiana by week’s end.

Mandatory evacuations already have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston, Texas, one day after Rita skirted the Florida Keys as a Category 2 storm, causing minimal damage.

Associated Press: Rita, Now Category 4, Heads for Gulf Coast

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4 Responses to “Rita: Category 3 Category 4”

Icepick Says:
September 21st, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Make that Cat 5.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/211955.shtml
SilverSeraphim Says:
September 21st, 2005 at 3:55 pm
Ho…ly…s***.

Thank gods Texas leaders are a helluva lot smarter than NOLA officials.
jeff ragovin Says:
September 21st, 2005 at 4:55 pm
Rita a Category 5 and a very Dangerous storm
As of 4 pm, Rita is a category 5 storm with 165-mph winds, located 300 miles west of Key West, Florida. Rita is moving west at 12 mph, and will move out into the central Gulf over the next 24-48 hours. Yet another one for the record books. This is the first time in recorded history that two Cat 5 Hurricanes have developed in the Gulf of Mexico in the same year.
SilverSeraphim Says:
September 22nd, 2005 at 1:41 pm
Actually Jeff, this is the third time since 1960. Two developed in 1960, two developed in 1961.

(I spent most of the evening last night glued to The Weather Channel. Morbid fascination.)

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