Well, with all due deference to what you are facing, we’re talking triage now. Someone is gonna get hammered by this storm. If Houston and the petrochemical plants that surround Galveston Bay escape the worst of this by a simple wobble by the eye 20 miles to the NE, it won’t make that much difference in Port Arthur. But it will make a HUGE difference for over four million people and 20 percent of the refining capacity for the country.
It doesn’t matter so much at this point, it obviously all has to end up somewhere! No matter where it “jogs”, or who it misses, it hits someone else.
The people of Houston and Galveston Bay know as well as anyone else on the coast the dangers of living here and many have taken adequate preparations. If you live on the coast, this is just part of how it is and you know it. One has to just accept it or leave.
I have wanted to get out for years, was born here...I’m done with it. It is just NOT worth it to live on the Gulf Coast anymore. So you dodge this one - there’s always next year living in fear again.
I can leave, I’m young, and am planning to in the next year - but my parents can’t until my dad retires. My heart breaks for them, and anyone in any part of the Gulf Coast who has worked all their lives for what they have and sees it all laid on the guillotine each year.
There are many beautiful things about the Gulf Coast but Mother Nature doesn’t seem to like us anymore.