What if Rita had hit Houston?

f5 · #1 Postby f5 » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:37 pm

i know there is a thread What if Katrina had hit N.O but in this case if Rita had hit Houston it would of been much worse beacuse Houston is our 4th largest city also this nation would most likely go into Great Depression II beacuse of our addiction to oil.

djtil · #2 Postby **djtil** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:47 pm

the coastal areas would have been a mess, especially galveston....the inland areas would have seen lots of tree and power line damage.......

as for mass devastation in houston...wouldnt have seen it from a cat2/3 storm.

#3 Postby **brunota2003** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:52 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOO not another "What If" thread, AHHHHHHHHHHH... :yayaya:

Clint_TX · #4 Postby **Clint_TX** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:53 pm

Looks like Cat 2 damage

djtil · #5 Postby **djtil** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:57 pm

JB in Florida writes:

What if it had hit DENVER?

its funny...that was before Katrina that JB thought it wasnt dramatic enough for him to forecast a Nola hit by Dennis....he had to take it to Denver where catastrophic flooding occured.

Now that the great Nola flood happened, just imagine the wild "what if"...err....forecasts...that JB will have to come up with now!!

skufful · #6 Postby **skufful** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:00 pm

Well I will bet one thing, looting would have been to a minimum. I like the Texas motto: The only good looter is a dead looter.

susan · #7 Postby **susan** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:01 pm

We had more damage than you think. Many trees ended up inside people's homes. Had Rita been a CAt 5 at landfall and we took a direct hit or a hit to the west of us, our refineries (which refine a lot gasoline for the country) would have taken a hard hit by winds and storm surge. The refineries are on the Ship Channel which projections show would have recieved a 25' storm surge. Everyone knows what happened here during Allison..The same bayous that flooded then would also be affected by the surge. It would not be just a coastal thing.

djtil · #8 Postby **djtil** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:02 pm

trees suck....no doubt....we had trees falling in Dallas due to 50mph gusts from circulation in combination with evaporative cooling on the west edge of the rain shield.

trees + homes + gulf coast is not a good mix.

susan · #9 Postby **susan** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:12 pm

Living on a swamp as we do in the Houston area does not help either :wink:

#10 Postby **SouthFloridawx** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:15 pm

skufful wrote:Well I will bet one thing, looting would have been to a minimum. I like the Texas motto: The only good looter is a dead looter.

the only good non-essential item looter is a dead non-essential item looter!!!

#11 Postby **jasons2k** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:23 am

djtil wrote:JB in Florida writes:

What if it had hit DENVER?

its funny...that was before Katrina that JB thought it wasnt dramatic enough for him to forecast a Nola hit by Dennis....he had to take it to Denver where catastrophic flooding occured.

Now that the great Nola flood happened, just imagine the wild "what if"...err....forecasts...that JB will have to come up with now!!

Yeah - like Ivan looping all the way around and coming back into the GOM and making a second hit........

kmanWX · #12 Postby **kmanWX** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:30 am

f5 wrote:i know there is a thread What if Katrina had hit N.O but in this case if Rita had hit Houston it would of been much worse beacuse Houston is our 4th largest city also this nation would most likely go into Great Depression II beacuse of our addiction to oil.

I am not trying to bash ya. But I think we had enough of 'what if's' this year, sometimes they even coem true.

Derek Ortt · #13 Postby **Derek Ortt** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:16 pm

there would have been massive damage in Houston, had it came into Galveston as a cat 5. It would have had sustained cat 2 winds on Houston, which is all New Orleans received, yet the high rises sustained severe wind damage

dwg71 · #14 Postby **dwg71** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:46 pm

I spent the day yesterday surveying damage in the Houston/Galveston Area. I'm in insurance agent and I have some 700 homes insured, and the worst loss I had was not even related to the storm. Insured evacuated 500K home only to return to a faulty waterline on an upstair wetbar. The house is 18 mos old. Luckily it wasnt too bad. I have had only a handfull of claims, only one or two that will exceed the deductible.

#15 Postby **SouthFloridawx** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:23 pm

What if a bug grew to 5 times the size of the earth and ate us all? Would a cat 5 hurricane still hit london and then spiral into china and then hit the cape verde islands?

:?:

djtil · #16 Postby **djtil** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:47 pm

JBs new forecast has bug TEN times bigger than earth.

#17 Postby **SouthFloridawx** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:53 pm

djtil wrote:JBs new forecast has bug TEN times bigger than earth.

uh ohhhh

#18 Postby **WeatherEmperor** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:03 pm

whats up with all these what-if scenarios? lol

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