Day: September 22, 2005

Various links relating to Hurricane Rita

Area Blogs: Liberty’s Blog | Smoke on the Water | Banjo Jones | Hou-Galv Area Blogger Ntwk | A Certain Slant of Light [source unavailable] | BlogHouston | Blogs of War | Burnt Orange Report | Charles “Off the Kuff” Kuffner | Diane’s Stuff | Generation Why? | Houston Clear Thinkers | Houston Strategies | Lone Star Times | Lou Minatti | Matt Bramanti | MikeyPod | My Own Thoughts | Rightmom | Stolen Thunder | J. Marler |

Media: Galveston Daily News | Houston Chronicle | Chron.com Rita | Chron.com SciGuy | Chron.com Stormwatchers | KTRH-AM | KHOU-TV (CBS) | KHOU-TV Blog | KPRC-TV (NBC) | KTRK-TV (ABC) | KRBE-FM [source unavailable] |

Houston Television Live Streams: NBC Affiliate KPRC Channel 2 | CBS Affiliate KHOU Channel 11 | ABC Affiliate KTRK Channel 13 |

Agencies: NOAA.GOV | NHC | Map | Houston Red Cross | Houston SPCA | Houston OEM | Transtar Cams |

Laurence Simon has wireless cameras up and running so he can catch Rita as she comes in. Right now though, the pictures are rather boring. The cams are pointing at cat beds.

Regardless of where Hurricane Rita makes landfall, the effects of this (now) category 4 storm will be felt across a wide swath of land. Forecasters in Houston expect to see the first signs of the hurricane tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Rita’s rain begins falling in New Orleans [source unavailable].

Senate Judiciary Committee votes 13-to-5 to send nomination of John Roberts for chief justice to full Senate.