Evening Update

Pressure still dropping - Galveston Jetty report winds about 50mph, less around the other Bay reporting stations. Power was out for about 10 minutes but came right back up. Still no rain the speak of, just some gusty norty winds. Since it's dark now, I probably won't be getting outside tonight, but I will keep checking everything until landfall or until I go to sleep or the power goes out or whenever I feel like it. Feeling pretty good about Rita heading a little east and probably going in up around High Island or Port Arthur. That's where all the initial flooding should be, although projections indicate that Rita might get tired of running and decide to just hang around a few days and dump rain like Allison did, in which case there will be mucho flooding over in east Texas. We'll worry about that later, since it isn't gone from here yet. More later.