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| 22nd September, 2005 - 2:03 am |  AP - The Houston Texans canceled practice for Thursday and asked all players to leave town immediately as Hurricane Rita barreled toward the Texas coast with 165-mph winds.
Coach Dom Capers said the team, which has a bye this week, was looking at alternatives that include practicing next week in Cincinnati before the Texans' game on Oct. 2 against the Bengals.
Between 2 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday, the hurricane went from a 115-mph Category 2 to a 165-mph Category 5. The storm is expected to reach the Gulf Coast early Saturday.
Texans players were planning to secure their homes and then scatter, from California to Florida.
Andre Johnson has dealt with a hurricane before. In 1992, he watched Hurricane Andrew plow by from his grandmother's screened-in porch.
``It was crazy to see things flying around like that,'' he said. ``I'm not doing that again. I'm getting out this time.'' [READ] |
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