is Galveston the next New Orleans?
We all know that New Orleans was extremely vulnerable to the kind of catastrophe that occurred when Hurricane Katrina came ashore a few weeks ago. Now that New Orleans is slowly recovering (I heard at least one bar on Bourbon Street was open), let's make sure we don't forget that the hurricane season peaks on September 15. We're barely over half way through!
Now it looks like Tropical Storm Rita - which is expected to increase in strength rapidly as it approaches the Florida Keys - is going to make a path through the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall somewhere on the coast of Texas.
Forecasts 5 days out of course are not particularly accurate, but the center of the national hurricane center's current forecast track takes Rita on shore just south of Galveston.
The Weather Channel web site has a list of vulnerable cities, one of which is Galveston. Galveston is the site of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history - at least in terms of lives lost. A category 4 hurricane roared ashore there in 1900 and over 20,000 people lost their lives.
Here's hoping we don't see anything like Katrina again in our lifetimes.
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