8:30 AM CST: Eye at 29.43° N, 95.40° W (just west of Houston). Max wind ~40mph. Eye well over land & ppears to be moving slightly inland. Over-land track should diminish strength... Major onshore wind flow (max storm surge) now just east of (past) Galveston Bay [TX] to just past Sabine Pass [in LA]. Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange [TX] petrochem plants under max stress now.
Beautiful, animated wind flow imagery of Nicholas... Click on any point to get pinpoint wind velocity. (Eye now ~1 mph.)
I'm 300 miles inland (north)-- still no rain, but would like to get a couple of inches. or so...
TXnMA