I have a vacation home near Corpus Christi that's rented, and my tenant has boarded up the windows with plywood and left today. This is VERY VERY scary. Right now, they're not exactly sure where it will hit. AH! The guy on the Weather Channel has just said that Hurricane Allen was the longest sustained Category 5 in history...
And no one on TV has commented on this... but in 1980 Hurricane Allen came into the Gulf... it was lots bigger than Rita with sustained winds of 190mph. Big Category 5 storm. When it finally made landfall on August 9, the winds had dropped to 115-- still nothing to sneeze at, but over land it could not sustain those really high winds. I had just gone to work for the Red Cross, and that was the first major disaster I worked on.
