Galveston's balanced on a razor blade right now.
So they get 15 feet of surge.
My money's on that concrete wall. You seen it?
It'll do a number on those waves too.
But...
The surge drops off very rapidly to the left of the eye's centerline.
Even a very slight wobble to the west will make things very different for Galveston.
Houston too.
No new Vortex Data Message or other NHC web source yet, but TWC is reporting that the pressure in Rita is now up another 2 mb to 919 mb.
One of the news guys heard that the road at the south end of the island where there is no wall was ALREADY getting water over the road. They were going to head down and check it out.