Lovely Rita Hurricane

She's definitely more than a 'meata made'.

Another strong hurricane is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of the U.S.
It is the second strong storm in the region in a month.
This time it is headed for Texas, but the storm surge has already
broken though already weakened levees in New Orleans.

I wonder how many more storms like this, the U.S. can handle this year.
The season still has another month or two to go.
If large cities, and refineries keep getting damaged like this,
the economy will take a major hit.

Although there has been much more preparedness in Texas for this storm,
because of the lessons learned in New Orleans,
it's still to be seen what the damage will be like in the morning.

Millions of people were ordered to be evacuated from Houston,
and the highways have been jam packed with cars ever since.
People are getting stranded because they run out of gas.
If Rita is as bad as the forecasters say, then these people stuck
on the highways will be sitting ducks.

Hopefully there will be no disaster.

But think of what these storms cost these areas, not only in lives lost,
or property damage, but in shutting down these huge cities.
Houston is basically a ghost town, and has been for a couple of days.
Who knows how long it will be like this, even considering they
are not going to receive a direct hit.

I guess these are the consequences of building these large cities
in paradise.

DB