What the heck Rita?

So Rita has turned into a beast - a category 5 hurricane, and appears to be heading straight towards Texas. As terrible as its going to be for this thing to make landfall anywhere, we're crossing our fingers that it won't be anywhere near us. But as of right now it looks like we're going to get atleast alot of rain and some wind. All the talking heads on the weather channel say that once a storm becomes a category 5 its very difficult for it to maintain its strength unless the conditions are just right, so hopefully it'll weaken a bit before we have a second Katrina. Here's hoping FEMA won't screw this one up so much...

PS: We leave from Hartford tomorrow at 7 am (ugh) so our next post will be from down south, and it might take a day or two for us to get posting. Hopefully we'll see you soon.