Can anyone tell me, based on the most recent projection for Rita, whether that will help or hurt Texas City? Or what is likely to happen there?
There is an animal sanctuary there (Whiskerville.org) and, for a variety of reasons, they did not evacuate in time. Now with the Houston gridlock, they aren't able to get transportation to/from Texas City. The last posting I saw was that Whiskerville.org says "It is now too late to move these 300 cats 7 dogs, we have looked and talked with many folks, including people who could possibly, send cargo aircraft to Houston, but the Airport roads are grid-locked."
Texas City ought to be on the "clean" side of the eye so they will get heavy winds and rain. Galveston Bay may cause flooding with the wind pushing the waters southward but, unless the animal shelter isn't able to withstand the wind, the animals ought to make it okay.
I used to live in Texas City back in the 1980s and went through Hurricane Alicia. Other than flooding and power outages, they made it through pretty well back then.