the weather channels coverage of hurricane katrina/Rita 05

[weatherlover94]

what was the best coverage of these 2 hurricanes in 2005 witch had the best coverage? i know twc did continuing coverage of katrina while it was crossing florida and then 2 days into the gulf on the 3rd they went into Storm Alert at 6:30 am on 8/28/05 as it was upgraded to a cat 5 witch was about 24 hrs from landfall.....how long before landfall for Rita did they go into Storm Alert?

[bergone]

I would assume they went into SA earlier with Katrina, since the "worst case scenario" was upon NO and the rest of the gulf. I didn't see Katrina's coverage but I saw Rita's. Rita was OK, a little hyped especially since it was after Katrina (the hype wasn't nearly as bad as it was on other channels, cnn, I'm looking at you.)

[Spring Rubber]

No, they went into Storm Alert with Rita much earlier because of the hype from Katrina. They went into Storm Alert at 8 PM ET (IIRC) on Thursday night prior to landfall early Saturday morning.

[weatherlover94]

Rita held the longest Storm Alert mode coverage since it started back in 02... 51 hours

[weatherlover94]

i didint get to watch much of the coverage.... does anyone have a clip of when they first went into storm alert for rita and upload it?