Oh! I can move this here:
Hurricane Rita, a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane with destructive force equal to the might of Hurricane Katrina, churned through the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday toward nothing prompting evacuation orders for more than 1.1 million Texans and the few remaining holdouts in flood-ravaged New Orleans!!!!
Galveston, a coastal city of 60,000, seemed like a ghost town Thursday morning, with much of it boarded up with big sheets of plywood. Big ones! Really, really, really, really big!
Coastal storm surge flooding of 15 to 20 feet above normal tide levels can be expected near and to the right of where the center makes landfall. That's one inch, but it's actually 100 miles. Can everyone see where I'm pointing? To the right of the pointer. I know it's hard to see because I used a yellow highlighter. Maybe we can turn down the lights? No? You can see it? Good, just to the right there. Which is, coincidentally, your house, Shirley Jackson.
Its path shifted a bit north overnight, meteorologists said. The National Hurricane Center said it is expected to smash into the Texas coast at least as a Category 3 storm. HURRICANE SMASH!!!!!!!! It might also turn into a gentle shower in the five days it'll take to move the 400 miles to the wasteland between the two population areas that it may or may not hit.
