They said to start with it would make landfall as a tropical storm. Them maybe a Cat 1. Then at the last min a Cat 3. It was a Cat 4.
The forecast changed drastically in a very short time. It’s a little easier to predict landfall when it’s right off the coast. And they were saying Corpus right up until just before landfall.
Hurricanes are not as predictable as the Weather Channel and the NHC would have you believe.
Which is why the decision was made in the early fifties to name them for women.