Pray for those in the path of Hurricane Rita.

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This is a storm of nearly unmatched destruc­tive power that Texas has ever seen. Please pray for the many fam­i­lies that will be affected.
Hur­ri­cane Rita is the sev­en­teenth named storm, ninth hur­ri­cane, fifth major hur­ri­cane, and sec­ond cat­e­gory five hur­ri­cane of the 2005 and Atlantic hur­ri­cane sea­son. The storm has already impacted Florida and Cuba, and cur­rently threat­ens Texas and Louisiana. The sys­tem reached cat­e­gory five strength on the after­noon of Sep­tem­ber 21, 2005, the sec­ond storm of the sea­son to do so (the other being Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina) and is expected to make land­fall some­time on Sep­tem­ber 24, between Galve­ston­Cor­pus Christi in Texas. The cur­rent inten­sity is 898 mbar, and fur­ther devel­op­ment is pos­si­ble. This makes Rita the third most intense ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. If Rita main­tains its cur­rent inten­sity, it will be the sec­ond most intense storm to make land­fall in the U.S.
It is also only the third time in recorded his­tory that there have been two Cat­e­gory 5 hur­ri­canes in a sin­gle sea­son; it had pre­vi­ously only hap­pened in the 1960 and 1961 sea­sons. If Rita impacts the U.S. main­land as a Cat­e­gory 5 hur­ri­cane she will become one of only four Cat­e­gory 5 hur­ri­canes to have hit the United States. The last hur­ri­cane to have hit the U.S. at Cat­e­gory 5 strength was Hur­ri­cane Andrew in 1992.

Source: Wikipedia