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MIAMI (CNN) -- Hurricane Rita has strengthened into a powerful Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, the National Hurricane Center reported late Tuesday.
Additional strengthening is expected over the next 24 hours, and forecasters said the storm could be a Category 4 storm by Wednesday afternoon, churning through the Gulf of Mexico with top sustained winds of 131 to 155 mph.
At 8 p.m. ET, the eye of the storm was about 65 miles west-southwest of Key West, Fla., and about 75 miles north of Havana, Cuba.
Rita was moving toward the west near 12 mph, a path it is expected to follow over the next day, according to the NHC.
It is currently forecast to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday around Galveston, Texas. (Posted 8:16 p.m.)
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Galveston mayor declares state of emergency ahead of Rita
GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas on Tuesday night declared a state of emergency and ordered mandatory evacuations of nursing homes and assisted living facilities starting at 6 a.m. Wednesday, in preparation for a possible strike by Hurricane Rita.
She also said mandatory evacuations of other parts of the city would begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday. (Posted 7:08 p.m)
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I live in Houston and if it lands where they say and is a category 4 there might be some trouble in thehelperville
Additional strengthening is expected over the next 24 hours, and forecasters said the storm could be a Category 4 storm by Wednesday afternoon, churning through the Gulf of Mexico with top sustained winds of 131 to 155 mph.
At 8 p.m. ET, the eye of the storm was about 65 miles west-southwest of Key West, Fla., and about 75 miles north of Havana, Cuba.
Rita was moving toward the west near 12 mph, a path it is expected to follow over the next day, according to the NHC.
It is currently forecast to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday around Galveston, Texas. (Posted 8:16 p.m.)
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Galveston mayor declares state of emergency ahead of Rita
GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas on Tuesday night declared a state of emergency and ordered mandatory evacuations of nursing homes and assisted living facilities starting at 6 a.m. Wednesday, in preparation for a possible strike by Hurricane Rita.
She also said mandatory evacuations of other parts of the city would begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday. (Posted 7:08 p.m)
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I live in Houston and if it lands where they say and is a category 4 there might be some trouble in thehelperville
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