UH CL was already closed. No official word from UH D. Our Provost only controls this campus, but I would think it would be the same.
Huh? Nogaps now has her traveling way north of us, and yesterday, Nogaps was predicting her to come down out throats...I don't quite undertand your info.
I second that, since I am a university employee as well. Mulder, D here has word of the 12 o'clock closing. I meant these, Falcons Talon: I will continue to post if they change dramatically.
Here's part of the email... President Gogue has determined to close the University of Houston effective 12 noon on Wednesday, September 21, through Sunday, September 25, except for critical staff who have been previously identified as such. This decision comes after assessing the current information available on Hurricane Rita and at the urging of the Mayor and County Judge to ensure the maximum safety of our faculty, students and staff during this emergency. We will announce plans for next week as soon as we get additional information about the impact of the storm.
Swoly -- that isn't much different at all from where the projections were yesterday. around matagorda. but understand that the strike probability differnces are tiny..it's like a 14 percent chance of a Galveston strike and a 15 percent chance of a Matagorda strike...and then they draw the one little line that indicates their best guess.
The worst thing I've read so far on Rita.. "Rita is growing large enough that she is creating her own upper level environment that will be relatively impervious to any external shearing winds that try to weaken her." -http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
This is becoming quite a storm. Figure some strengthening then some weakening before landfall. The models are coming into very strong consensus very similar to 48-72 hours prior to the landfall of Katrina. Like I said, today is the day we'll start to see the models really begin to cluster. Model guidance has been fixated on Matagorda for 4 runs now. If it stays that way through the morning, that bodes well for us. We will still get a ton of rain and plenty of wind, but not the devastating kinds of stuff we'd get if it made a direct shot on Freeport/Galveston. Still way, WAY too close to call, but we're starting to see a more cohesive pattern emerging.
Whew...nothing new...For a second,I thought something had drastically changed. Brownsville is still in the probability cone. It still has to turn to take us out (RGValley) of the pictures, but I swear, I hate that it will turn into the Houston/Galveston area...
OMG dude. Well guys, if I don't post again before noon, good luck, god speed. I will be praying for all of you guys. I'm off to MN to see John Mayer tomorrow and will return (hopefully) on Sunday night.
I might get in trouble with the Rockets Power Dancer in my class (see threads I've started) if I tell you, but it's UH-Downtown, not central, for me.
The Storm Path cone has changed on weather.com http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm18/projectedpath_large.html This morning the top of the cone was hitting Baton Rouge with the bottom below the border of Mexico. The cone has basically narrowed, but the top has moved alot closer to us.
