texas, coming out saying that if you decide to ride this thing out, you should take a sharpie and write your name and your social security number on your arm, meaning that when they find your body it will be easier for them to identify it, a grim way of telling people to get out. but after years of people staying behind, they are doing whatever they can to motivate people. we should note that hurricane harvey is now a category 3 hurricane. now there is a very real possibility it could be categors landfall some time at midnight or just after midnight around corpus christi, texas, continuing coverage of breaking news hurricane harvey, a category 3 monster storm next. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn t have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™.
winds go, also trying to figure out where it s going to go. so we are collecting all this data, as you mention, and feeding it directly to the national hurricane center in real time. it s going into the models, when you look at the spaghetti plot, that s the information that we are feeding into all of those models to get a really good picture of what is coming and who is in harm s way, so that the people who are in harm s way can listen to their managers and get out of the way. trace: i ve got to go, ian, i want to note did this thing look like it was replete filled with water? we hear just amazing totals coming out of it. yeah. that s absolutely right there in the rainfall amounts being forecasted, they aren t there to scare you. that s a real number. really, because of the speed this system is going to be moving, hurricane preparations, you are out of harm s way. trace: yeah.
managers in the community as well as in texas and louisiana. that experience is still in their memory, experience in the muscle memory. what we ve done is get a lot better as a government. congress has got better to allow deflects ability of what we need to employ, not just deploy resources. brock long has marshaled here to employ the resources carefully, and we grant that declaration, which i suspect we might. and lastly, to your point about how difficult it is to get assistance to people, i would say this. you never want to plan for the federal government to swoop in and provide everything you need when you needed just in time, right? it s going to be 4.6 million people in the passage of the storm depending on how the forecast goes? that s a lot of people. we encourage people to be ready, be prepared, take some responsibility for their own safety, and as the next 72 hours on phone, food, water, shelter is a primary concern. we provide the assistance, we do it in such a way that it s
extremely happy with his leadership in things on this and i think that will carry through as you see them respond to this event. sarah sir? [indistinct question] it can make a little bit of a difference, and it makes that much of a difference to the spirit and mentality of the people after employing those resources. to the extent that it reach is the criteria, i would consider it very favorably. to the extent that any ambiguity be cleared up, at the implementation level, people know they have the ability to employ resources for theme at the start mission providing money to the other departments to do what they need to do. it s a good idea. there is precedent for it. is there anything about the president about him coming out and addressing the nation, given the potential magnitude of this storm, our people considering
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.