Look at a map of Texas. See the first bay along the coast up from the southern tip? The southern tip is Brownsville and Harlingen, otherwise known as the Valley. That first bay is Kingsville. And everything between is the King Ranch.
Any hurricane going in just north of Brownsville will strike an undeveloped Padre Island and an entire Texas county that is nothing but ranchland. Bret hit there in 1998, and is the only Cat 4 to hit the mainland US and not have its name retired, because all it did was knock down some ranch structures and kill some cattle.
Okay, so what I want to know, that no one is talking about, is; are they evacuating the evacuees from the Astro dome? And if so, where to?