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Wish i could! :twisted:

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity. This is used to give an estimate of the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast from a hurricane landfall. Wind speed is the determining factor in the scale, as storm surge values are highly dependent on the slope of the continental shelf and the shape of the coastline, in the landfall region. Note that all winds are using the U.S. 1-minute average. Category One Hurricane: Winds 74-95 mph (64-82 kt or 119-153 km/hr). Storm surge generally 4-5 ft above normal. No real damage to building structures. Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and trees. Some damage to poorly constructed signs. Also, some coastal road flooding and minor pier damage. Hurricane Lili of 2002 made landfall on the Louisiana coast as a Category One hurricane. Hurricane Gaston of 2004 was a Category One hurricane that made landfall along the central South Carolina coast. Category Two Hurricane: Winds 96-110 mph (83-95 kt or 154-177 km/hr). Storm surge generally 6-8 feet above normal. Some roofing material, door, and window damage of buildings. Considerable damage to shrubbery and trees with some trees blown down. Considerable damage to mobile homes, poorly constructed signs, and piers. Coastal and low-lying escape routes flood 2-4 hours before arrival of the hurricane center. Small craft in unprotected anchorages break moorings. Hurricane Frances of 2004 made landfall over the southern end of Hutchinson Island, Florida as a Category Two hurricane. Hurricane Isabel of 2003 made landfall near Drum Inlet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane. Category Three Hurricane: Winds 111-130 mph (96-113 kt or 178-209 km/hr). Storm surge generally 9-12 ft above normal. Some structural damage to small residences and utility buildings with a minor amount of curtainwall failures. Damage to shrubbery and trees with foliage blown off trees and large trees blown down. Mobile homes and poorly constructed signs are destroyed. Low-lying escape routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Flooding near the coast destroys smaller structures with larger structures damaged by battering from floating debris. Terrain continuously lower than 5 ft above mean sea level may be flooded inland 8 miles (13 km) or more. Evacuation of low-lying residences with several blocks of the shoreline may be required. Hurricanes Jeanne and Ivan of 2004 were Category Three hurricanes when they made landfall in Florida and in Alabama, respectively. Category Four Hurricane: Winds 131-155 mph (114-135 kt or 210-249 km/hr). Storm surge generally 13-18 ft above normal. More extensive curtainwall failures with some complete roof structure failures on small residences. Shrubs, trees, and all signs are blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Extensive damage to doors and windows. Low-lying escape routes may be cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Major damage to lower floors of structures near the shore. Terrain lower than 10 ft above sea level may be flooded requiring massive evacuation of residential areas as far inland as 6 miles (10 km). Hurricane Charley of 2004 was a Category Four hurricane made landfall in Charlotte County, Florida with winds of 150 mph. Hurricane Dennis of 2005 struck the island of Cuba as a Category Four hurricane. Category Five Hurricane: Winds greater than 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km/hr). Storm surge generally greater than 18 ft above normal. Complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings. Some complete building failures with small utility buildings blown over or away. All shrubs, trees, and signs blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Severe and extensive window and door damage. Low-lying escape routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Major damage to lower floors of all structures located less than 15 ft above sea level and within 500 yards of the shoreline. Massive evacuation of residential areas on low ground within 5-10 miles (8-16 km) of the shoreline may be required. Only 3 Category Five Hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since records began: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, Hurricane Camille (1969), and Hurricane Andrew in August, 1992. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys with a minimum pressure of 892 mb--the lowest pressure ever observed in the United States. Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast causing a 25-foot storm surge, which inundated Pass Christian. Hurricane Andrew of 1992 made landfall over southern Miami-Dade County, Florida causing 26.5 billion dollars in losses--the costliest hurricane on record. In addition, Hurricane Gilbert of 1988 was a Category Five hurricane at peak intensity and is the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone on record with a minimum pressure of 888 mb.

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What's the biggest Bass you've ever caught? Mine was 5.4 LBS. Caught in Hemphill, Texas on Toledo Bend off the bank. I was using a Black plastic worm with red flake. It was in May with the wind blowing and light rain.

Friday Night's game should look great.

That is shocking because Vidor's Varsity is good! ::k

Racer Paul Dana Dead at the age of 31 He died in a 160 MPH collision with another racer in the Indy today. Thoughts and prayers with his family!

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Woodville baseball hopes to repeat After a Class 2A state championship run in 2005, the Woodville baseball team looks poised for another shot at state this season. Returning seven position players and 13 in all from last year's championship squad, the Eagles have started this season 15-4 overall and 3-0 in District 23-2A. More here [Hidden Content]

Texas track has come a long way in 10 yearsBy Mark Ashenfelter Bruton Smith built it, and NASCAR came to Texas Motor Speedway. And then the green flag dropped to kick off the first Winston Cup race at the track in 1997. And the field started wrecking. A year later, water seeped through the track, sparking more controversy. Finally, the track was reconfigured and the competitors were happy. Smith, wasn't, however, since the facility was hosting just one Cup race a year. Smith insisted NASCAR's Bill France Jr. had assured him that the track would have two dates per year. Tensions ebbed and flowed until, finally, a shareholder in Smith's Speedway Motorsports Inc. filed suit against NASCAR, saying the track should have a second date. Finally, a compromise was made. International Speedway Corp., which is controlled by the France family, agreed to sell Rockingham to SMI. At that point, SMI transferred Rockingham's lone Cup date to Texas. It was NASCAR's version of "peace in our time." As NASCAR gathers in Texas this weekend, the track is celebrating its 10th anniversary -- and searching for its 11th different winner in as many Cup races. It's been a short, strange trip for the facility -- one drivers now enjoy visiting. That, however, wasn't always the case. Michael Waltrip remembers how he felt going to the track the first time -- and how he felt after being there awhile. "When Texas opened it was so great because the fans were awesome and the place looked so big and nice," Waltrip said. "I couldn't wait to get there. But once we raced on it, that feeling went away. "The track originally made me sick to my stomach, because you just couldn't race there. It wasn't much fun for the drivers or the fans. Thankfully, [track president] Eddie Gossage and his team listened to the drivers and spent the money to make Texas Motor Speedway one of the best tracks on the circuit today. Last year we were able to race two- and three-wide. That kind of racing puts on a good show for the fans and lets the drivers race. It's one of my favorite tracks now." Having won at TMS, it's also one of Elliott Sadler's favorite tracks. And in his way, the Virginian figures he played something of a historic role at the facility back while he was still in the Busch Series. "I think I was the first-ever race car on [the track] when I brought my Busch car down [there] in 1997 with Diamond Ridge [Motorsports]. I think we were the first-ever car to test here," Sadler said. "I think the [other drivers] just weren't used to such a fast racetrack. "I think they had it pictured in their head that this was another Charlotte and another Atlanta, but when they got here the straightaways were a little bit shorter, the curves were a little bit longer and it was just a lot faster racetrack. I think that caught everybody off guard. When you have new asphalt we're going to run single-file, that's just the way it is, but now this track has aged. This track is going to get better and better each and every year the more it ages." Sadler admits the fact he's won there greatly contributes to the comfort level each time he returns. "It's comforting for me because I try to explain it to people like this, some golfers go to certain golf courses and it fits their swing or their golf game better," Sadler said. "This track fits my driving style. I love [that] place. I know when I leave pit road for the first lap where I need to be on the track, how much throttle I need to have, how much brake -- the whole nine yards -- and I have a sense of comfort [there], probably more than anywhere else we go." Jeff Burton recorded his first Cup win in that wreck-plagued '97 event and enjoys the notoriety that still accompanies the win. He's just hoping to add to that legacy this time around. "It's cool to go to Texas as the inaugural winner," he said. "It's a beautiful facility. The track has gone through several changes since then, but I'll always be the first winner there no matter what happens. It would be even cooler to have that win, then 10 years later win again, and it's something we have a chance to do. It would be an honor to win at Texas on their 10th anniversary and to be able to show that longevity of winning the first one then come back 10 years later to win again." If Burton does just that, he'll do so on a track he now really enjoys. He's among the many who point out that tracks with fresh asphalt aren't that great to run on, which is why the track is so much better now that it hasn't been repaved in years. "The best thing we can have is really old racetracks with old asphalt," Burton said. "That's when you have your best racing. Texas is absolutely the best it has ever been right now." Terry Labonte, in his final Cup season, has two races left at the only track in his native Texas. Labonte won there in 1999 with Hendrick Motorsports and will be back in one of that team's Chevrolets after running the first five races with Hall of Fame Racing. Races in Texas hold a special place in Labonte's heart. "It's a great facility. I always look forward to going down there," Labonte said. "We've got a lot of friends and relatives that come up for the race there. "When Bruton Smith and those guys built that track down there, I don't think the people down there realized how big a deal it was going to be. It's just been a huge success. It really makes you proud to be from Texas, you go down there and have a facility like that."

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#7 From HJ went 4-4 with a solo HR...He'll be my pick for Player Of the week.

www.panews.com Gamble Stars shine bright Late in the first half of Friday night's Port Arthur News Gamble Awards Game, Houston Kashmere's 6-foot-1Josh Rachal made one of those ‘I don't believe what I just saw' plays. Rachal left the ground and flew to the basket, then jacknifed for an alley-oop pass that teammate Chancious Rose threw behind his head. Not only did he catch it, Rachal tomahawked the ball through the basket and had the 750 or so fans at the Parker Center crowd revving up like they were preparing for takeoff. But it was the Gamble Stars who flew in the second half, throwing down plenty of fireworks along the way as they whipped the Houston Slam All-Stars 80-59. Memorial big man Dominique Keller was the game's high scorer with 15 points and Kris Richard of Ozen and West Orange-Stark's Richard Netherly added a dozen points apiece. Keller and Hardin-Jefferson point guard Ryan Donahoe collaborated on a monster alley-oop late in the third quarter and then Richard and Netherly teamed for two remarkable plays in a 15-second span of the final period. On the first, Richard missed a 3-point attempt from the top of the free throw circle. Netherly, a 6-7 junior who led WO-S to its first state tournament appearance, reached high, one-handed the rebound and in one motion jammed it through the goal. The place went nuts and had barely calmed when Donahoe rebounded a miss by Rose and hit a streaking Richard for a sure dunk by the 6-3 Ozen junior. Instead, Richard bounced the ball off the backboard to Netherly, who was trailing, and two-hand slammed it. “This was the most talented team we've had overall,†James Gamble, the award's namesake and the coach of the Gamble Stars, said of the players selected for the third annual all-star game. “They came to play. We stumbled and fumbled a little bit, but we just got after it.†Eight of the 11 players on the Gamble Stars scored at least a half dozen points. Ozen's Mack Randall had 13 rebounds to go with his eight points and Kelly's Johnathan Brown, who scored eight points and picked off four rebounds, created a roar every time he touched the ball as he brought along a large family cheering section. Of course, the Gamble Game is just a warmup for tonight's James Gamble Awards ceremony, which will honor the top two high school basketball players in Southeast Texas, Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside. A banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m., also at the downtown Parker Center on the campus of Lamar State College-Port Arthur. Nominees for Mr. Inside include Keller, the only repeat finalist, Brown, Netherly, Randall and Silsbee's Bryan Harris. Nominees for Mr. Outside include Richard, Donahoe, Central's duo of Keith Fisher and Brandon Moton, West Brook's Nicholas Pearson and Noah Cole of Vidor. The Houston Slam All-Stars are an Adidas-sponsored traveling team of high school seniors put together by Terrul Henderson, a former coach at Lincoln High, where Gamble won four state championships in an eight-year span. Rachal, who played at the Parker Center last December when his Kashmere team participated in the James Gamble Classic, led the Slam Stars with 11 points. Rose, from Gulf Shores Academy, scored nine points. Dustin Hawkins, a 6-5 forward from Aldine High, had a team-high nine rebounds. The Gamble Stars outshot their opponents, hitting 45 percent (31 of 69) from the floor and 62 percent (16 of 26) from the line, compared to 29 percent (22 of 75) from the field and 39 percent (11 of 28) from the free throw stripe. The Slam Stars were just 4 for 28 from 3-point range. The Gamble Stars also outrebounded the Houstonians 57-43 with Harris grabbing six rebounds, same as Cole and fellow guards Donahoe and Richard had five caroms each. A 27-19 lead in turnovers was the main thing that kept this one close for two and a half quarters. The Gamble Stars built a quick 13-6 lead in the first five minutes of the game with the starting lineup of Richard, Donahoe, Pearson, Keller and Randall. Keller had seven of those points. “It was kind of good having Mack Randall by my side,†said Keller, who lacked another big threat to take the pressure off him in Memorial's lineup. The Slam Stars took an 18-17 lead at the end of the first 10-minute quarter as Brown, Fisher, Cole, Moton and Netherly played for the Gamble Stars. The first unit returned to open the second quarter and put together a 14-0 run for a 31-18 lead with Randall scoring six points and Richard five. The Slam Stars closed to 37-33 at halftime. The Houstonians got as close as one-point, 39-38, when Hawkins hit a 15-foot jumper with 6:28 left in the third period. It was 43-40 with 4:29 left in the third when the Gamble Stars went on a 14-2 tear. Fisher swished a 3-pointer, Brown scored six straight points, Keller got his alley-oop and it was all capped by Donahoe's mad dash downcourt to score at the third-quarter buzzer on a runner that hung on the rim and dropped through after the buzzer. “In the second half, we came back and stopped subbing in teams and started subbing in individuals,†Gamble said. “We got more out of them like that.†There was no fourth-quarter comeback in the Houstonians, only a chance for both sides to work on their style points. Netherly, who scored nine points in the final period, showed off some slick moves and a surprising jump shot. Richard had a one-handed dunk before collaborating with Netherly on a spectacular closing. “It was all up and down,†Randall said. “We played various different type of offense, but mostly it was go for what you know.†The Gamble Awards honor the area's basketball winners. For the third year in a row, Gamble's Stars were winners in the Gamble Game.

Really sad and hate to hear things like this.

Buna 8 Coldspring 5

Buna 8 Coldspring 5

Colmesneil 22 Spurger 4

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Kingwood 10 WB 9

NE Christian 14 Cathedral 4

Kingwood NE Christian 14 Cathedral 4

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