a couple of miles closer to you, and that would have been the biggest population center to be hit by the storm. we've been talking about the damage in rockport. had that intensity hit corpus chris christi, we would be having a different story there. maya, thank you. let's go to jose live in victoria, texas. you are still getting lots of this. there's still a lot of wind and rain considering this thing made land fall more than 12 hours ago. >> reporter: yeah. as a matter of fact, as if cued by mother nature right now, it's one of the strong gusts hitting us right now. >> wow. >> reporter: it's been like this for hours. we were hearing the storm is moving at 2 miles per hour. at 3:00 in the morning we asked how far is the brunt of the storm from victoria in sn they said 30 miles from here. we asked two hours later and it