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Title: Rita
Post by: blobrana on September 21, 2005, 10:28:42 PM

Predicted hurricane track (http://static.flickr.com/29/45406495_dbfdde7971_o.jpg) (picture includes sea temperature)

Hurricane Rita has just been upgraded to a category 5 storm, with wind speeds of 240 km/hour.

(http://www.met-office.gov.uk/satpics/namerica.jpg)
Realtime (now) image of the storm

Title: Re: Rita
Post by: T_Bone on September 21, 2005, 10:36:54 PM

I hate to say it (man, this is going to sound bad) but I was kind of hoping it would follow Katrina. Hell, at least that area has already been evacuated and you can only really completely devestate an area once.

Title: Re: Rita
Post by: blobrana on September 22, 2005, 01:48:18 AM

Hum,
Yeah, I can imaging how many millions  of dollars  Halliburton would lose then.

Title: Re: Rita
Post by: adz on September 22, 2005, 05:21:17 AM

Scary...Just hope it dies down a tad before it hits land, though I don't think thats gonna happen, best wishes to anyone out there who is in the path of that thing.

Title: Re: Rita
Post by: T_Bone on September 22, 2005, 05:21:50 AM

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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
Yeah, I can imaging how many millions  of dollars  Halliburton would lose then.

Unless they manage to "convince" the government that since *2* hurricanes destroyed the structures instead of one, that it will cost twice as much to rebuild them.
 :-P

Title: Re: Rita
Post by: Wilse on September 22, 2005, 06:10:10 PM

@T_Bone:

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Unless they manage to "convince" the government that since *2* hurricanes destroyed the structures instead of one, that it will cost twice as much to rebuild them.
 

Given their track record, that should be a piece of pish.