| abstract | - Hurricane forecasts have become much more accurate over the ages, but there is still some uncertainty. Specifically, it is possible to know exactly where Rita would make landfall and exactly how much chaos she intended to create, but we cannot know both of these things at the same time. This is known as Hindenburg's Uncertainty Principle. Nonetheless, Rita appeared to be angry with the survivors of New Atlantis, perhaps for their failure to save the infamous St. Rita's home from the deadly floodwater which followed Katrina. While most of the New Venice population had fled to the new Moderately New Orleans in Texas, Rita was heading straight for them, fully intending to exact her revenge upon them. A direct hurricane strike in Texas would also be likely to uproot much useless foliage and many Bushes, an objective which Rita shared with the equally-dangerous Typhoon John (R-AZ). Texans havd been hastily building a massive front of hot air in the hopes that the high pressure front will push the storm eastward and away from Houston-Galveston. Louisiana has been using Hurricane Hunter planes, dropping Hurricane drinks into the eye of the storm in order to knock her further off-course. The result was Rita staggering incoherently, unsure whether to destroy Texas, Louisiana or both.
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