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Looking super bad for Texas. Hope everyone who wants out can get out, including our forum folks. Stay safe.

Yup... Rita deserves her own thread thats for sure.

My prayers go out to all you Rick-heads in Texas... remember that "stuff" can be replaced (even Rickenbackers) but life and health cant. Dont mess around with this one... so far it looks like it will be even more powerful thank Katrina.

Here's hoping my fellow Texans on the coast can weather this storm without any lives (or much property) being lost. Fingers crossed. Prayers sent aloft.

However... having said that, we in South Texas are hoping to benefit from some much needed rainfall, since we are now in the 'ump-teenth' year of a long, dry spell.

It's scary when you get to the point where an entire region actually hopes for a tropical storm to head our way in order to replenish our lakes, streams, rivers and aquifers.

Looks like a big one...
I think they said it's the 3rd biggest hurricane recorded or something along the lines of that...

Just don't take my word for it! Hah

As if Katrina wasn't bad enough. This is like an insult to a kick in the crotch. OMG. May God bless them.

Why don't they build a giant wall between Cuba and Florida already?

HAH! The Great Wall of Cuba.

A wall between Key West & Cuba wouldn't stop these storms.

BTW, I'm preparing the house and plan to ride out whatever's thrown at me. I'm far enough inland, I'm not worried about any storm surge. May have some street flooding, but in the past, any street flooding hasn't been a problem for my home. I don't want to think about any possible wind damage.

The only thing left is to finishing cleaning up the garage so I can put the pickup in there along with the Jeep.

My Rics (& other guitars) will be in their cases, sitting atop the washing machine & dryer, just in case. The laundry room is one of the home's interior rooms.

They have already built a wall between Florida and Cuba.

Unfortunately, it can't be seen.

I think this storm just caused the gas prices to rise again...
It's at $2/L someplaces here! Ouch! That's a 80c increase in a day.

Oh well, it was gonna get there eitherway...

I topped my tanks off at 5am yesterday. At 5am today, you would lucky to find gas at any price.

From the Houston Chroncile:
While some motorists had no problem finding gasoline, others reported going from station to station in search of fuel, and police officers along the highways were carrying gasoline to help people get out of town. Refineries in Houston stopped pumping gasoline and diesel into delivery trucks last night so they could prepare for the hurricane themselves, according to Houston's largest distributor, Sun Coast Resources.

Patrick that is close to $9.00 a gallon. Time to take my ride on to work.

If the refineries in Texas get damaged in a significant way then you can expect shortage of supply all over North America. Even higher prices are very predictable if damage occurs to process equipment and storage or distribution areas of the refineries in the area.

Gasoline and Diesel are produced as part of a product slate that differs from refinery to refinery. Exactly how much can be produced depends on both their crude selection and their in-situ equipment.

Their ability to make diesel and gasoline is eliminated if they lose their cat cracker and reformer. Empty tanks are also highly susceptible to damage by the wind velocities generated by a Cat 5 hurricane. The ability to store and ship would be compromised if they were to lose any of their tankage.

Not a pretty thought but quite a conceivable occurrence if refineries in the area receive a direct hit.

Hopefully all who are in Hurricane Ritas' path get out of it's way before the storm makes landfall.

Whatever economic realities it leaves in it's wake are of secondary importance.

The last time there were two storms of this magnitude in the one year was 1915. I guess the price of fuel wasn't an issue then!

Of great concern is the fact that there are over 80 fuel and chemical storage installations directly in Rita's path. I just hope nobody's around if they suffer major damage!

Brian: The price of fuel goes up here when these sorts of things happen - anticipated shortages, speculative commodity markets and all that stuff. We are currrently paying around $1.70 USD per litre.