Along the coast halfway between Corpus and Galveston.
It's probably the 2nd-best case place for a hurricane strike along the Texas Coast (the best being the King Ranch).
On a map, go down the coast from Galveston Bay, and Matagorda Bay is the next large bay down.
It's not that heavily populated and it's far enough down the coast to spare the worst of the effects for Houston and Galveston Bay, although if this bitch is anything like Katrina, it still could be dicey up there.
Just curious, because there have been several posts about the King Ranch being the best place for the storm to hit, but I do not know what the King Ranch is, or why it would be the best place.
Could you explain it to a northerner?
I see it on my handy dandy newly acquired Texas map!
Yes and no. The distance from Port Lavaca (west side of Matagorda Bay) to Galveston is the distance from Katrina's center's landfall to Mobile, and they had a 10-20' (depending on the source) storm surge, heavily damaging Dauphin Island.
The good thing is that it's not that hard to evac. Houston only has so many ways out and a helluvalotta people.