hit, the heart of the storm, around midnight or perhaps in the early morning hours. i've got to tell you, when forces already feel like they are at hurricane level here. we've seen gusts of more than 6s gotten worse in the past half hour or so. the rain is coming in in sheets sideways. we are not seeing branches or twigs being snapped off yet, but spend getting significant worse the past half hour or so. as far as corpus christi goes, a city of about 300,000 people, it's been under a voluntary evacuation. many of the areas along the texas coast, lower lying areas, have been in mandatory evacuations. throughout the past 48 hours, we've been seeing people get on the road being picked up sometimes by authorities, taken by bus, anything to get out of here. and the real problem is, the real challenge is, you are going to have to go in a long way to actually get out of the storm. it could hang around for a day or two.