Rita bears down on Texas as the Wall Street Journal maintains a running blog of activities. I assume no journalists want to be scooped this time, so there will be a swarm looking for that desparate-cursing-mayor money shot all over the area.
Still, with the storm a Category 5 right now, it’s likely to come ashore as a monster event. And if it does hit certain parts of Texas, there will likely be yet another disruption to the already stretched refineries on the Gulf coast.