When you hear Bastardi say more than once that he is becoming increasingly worried about the track changing with the hurricane landing closer to Galveston you had best pay attention.
He made a point of making sure he stressed it more than once to the reporter.
Bastardi throws around the term "worried" left and right, so it's making a pseudo-forecast without actually making a forecast; if the "worry" happens, then he'll brag about having "called" it, if it doesn't happen, well, he wasn't actually FORECASTING something, he was just WORRYING about it, and nobody really remembers.
Bastardi has been "worried" this year about such things as:
1) Dennis hitting New Orleans
2) Ophelia entering the Gulf of Mexico
As a couple of examples.