[Dane]

There is another model that was released at 2;48 EDT that shows it may hit south of Houston and Corpus Christi but north of Brownsville.

That would be a better case scenario in that the area is sparsely populated since most of that land is owned by the King ranch.

Hurrican Bret hit there in 1999 with minimal damage.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1999bret.html

[Spktyr]

Yeah, that looks a lot better. The poor b******* in Brownsville would get it in the shorts again, but that's the about the best place for the thing to go. There's not much there, as you say.

[newzjunkey]

Thanks for bringing it up but this map from Accuweather seems rather worthless. It puts the anywhere along a path some 700+ miles from around Galvaston to near Veracruz!

We're far too many days out to know anything more usefully definitive. The models are all over the place.

[watchyourwallet]

Yeah this map is from the same folks that said Ophelia would hit South Carolina as a CAT 2 or 3. So I pay no attention to what they say. Not to mention the problems they caused Houston in 1988 when they said that monster storm would hit them directly and it wound up going into Mexico.

[Savage Beast]

I wonder what all those New Orleans people who fled to Houston are thinking.