Are they still around then? I heard on some news story last night that it was the influx of evacuees from the 1900 storm that put Houston on its way to becoming a metro area.
They're on Mapquest now, so I'm sure they exist :-)
They're right on the border of Galveston and Brazoria Counties, on the barrier Island, SW of Galveston.
Anyway, Galveston got the right eyewall of the 1900 storm but not the center, so the measured low pressure in Galveston wasn't the lowest pressure of the storm.
I left the office at 3:30 and had meetings and just got back on to the thread. All you Accuweather naysayers need to say your apologies! They were brave enough to call this spade a spade hours ago(CAT 5). I'm stickin with them.
Red Fish Cove, where Stratergist said the 1900 Galveston storm made landfall, is at the extreme SW end of Galveston Island, or about 58.7 miles NE of where Rita is currently projected to coma ashore.