Saturday 24/09/05 - Hurricane Rita

Spend the day glued to BBC and CNN to monitor the progress of Hurricane Rita. This weathersystem is due to make landfall near Galveston TX, and is a tropical hurricane of category 4. As soon as it is over land, the system collapses into a deluge of rain. Wind speeds of up to 200 kph / 125 mph. Although there is a lot of damage and flooding, the anticipated devastation on the Katrina scale has not materialized. It is still horrendous though.