Same here...pretty much everyone I know around Beaumont-Port Arthur is staying, and Houston too. Friend of mine going to Rice will be riding out his first hurricane on campus, where they’re sheltering a lot of the students...
We live in Nederland, fairly close to Port Arthur, and now local KFDM-6 is trying to scare everybody out by threatening the Port Arthur levee is going to overtop or break and bring Cat 3 type surges due to the sheer size of the storm. I think this is overboard prediction wise, though my parents are getting really nervous.
Best case will be that it doesn’t strengthen at all, no matter it ends up. We can handle the wind, we got through Rita and now have a super new roof so that part is okay - it’s just the water.
I guess Galveston will be flooded with CNN, FOX, and PMSNBC come tomorrow - we’re making predictions on where Geraldo will be screeching from this time. I laughed my butt off during Rita when he was almost got blown out of the Port Arthur Holiday Inn...
If things do not change, and it remains this large, the storm surge WILL be stronger than would normally be expected to be associated with that wind strength.
I don’t think this point is being over-hyped.
“... he was almost got blown out of the Port Arthur Holiday Inn...”
File that one under ‘silver lining.’
Now, see, Xena’s Guy was just complaining about the utter dearth of crying baby-brandishing Geraldo in this storm.
So I reminded him that it’s early yet and we have SCADS of time for all that.