Fresh news from weather.com (3:43 p.m. ET 9/22/2005):
"If there is any good news at this point, it is the fact that the hurricane probably reached its peak intensity overnight. Rita may now be entraining some drier mid-level air from over the western Gulf of Mexico and Texas into its western side, causing the slight decrease in wind speed and increase in pressure. " "Hurricane Rita, now a category 4 storm, has featured a slow rise in pressure. It continues to be very dangerous, however."

Let's remember our neighbors to the south in prayer that this storm will die down quickly before the full force of it can hit land. They have suffered huge losses from Katrina.... "God please spare them any more pain."