[Tall_Texan]

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.

[green pastures]

Thanks, Tall_Texan. I hope and pray you are right.

[conservative in nyc]

According to The Handbook of Texas, a 23-foot seawall was built near Texas City after it was inundated by 4 feet of water in by Hurricane Camille in 1961. The seawall was completed in 1985. In 1982, the city built an 8-foot high levee on Moses Lake, to the north of the city, and installed pumps.

Texas City may be on the clean side of the storm, but what happens will depend on the storm surge. It's less than 10 feet above sea level in most places behind the wall, and directly across from the Texas City Channel that connects Galveston Bay to the Gulf. It's likely that any storm surge thrown into the Bay will head there first. And the 8-foot Moses Lake levee may be vulnerable to any water pushed by northerly winds. I don't know if they have a gate to close in the narrow inlet from Galveston Bay to Moses Lake.