It's a MONSTER

I just got this breaking news e-mail from CNN:

Hurricane Rita reaches Category 5 status with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph, the National Hurricane Center says.

I can't even imagine 165 mph winds. Let's brace for another monster coming ashore, courtesy of global warming of course. Hopefully, since it's nowhere near land right now, it will lose steam before it reaches any coastal area, but I don't really know if that's a real possibility at this point. Does a storm tire of raging after a while? I do not know.