example on wednesday excuse me, on thursday we set port condition yankee which restricted deep vessel traffic to one way outbound and that allowed the pilots to work with the industry in order to have vessels depart port. and then on friday, i set port condition zhu zulu which closed port. are you confident that the refineries have taken precautions necessary to prevent some sort of disaster? i know that they are prepared and they have hurricane contingency plans and they take steps to minimize those risks to the port and the environment. any update on progress of what is being done for the cruise ship passengers and ships out in the gulf? sure. so we are meeting daily, twice a day with the cruise ship operators as well as the city of
and has more details. a very different scene in galveston, compared to where my colleague steve carrigan is about 200 miles to the south of where we are. that is where the storm made landfall. meaning the strongest winds and storm surge, a lot of structural damage there, here in galveston, folks woke up to heavy winds and rain. but we have driven the island there s not much structural damage thankfully to speak of. think of it as a one-two punch. that s how some emergency management officials have called it. the first punch is in the corpus christi area where the storm came ashore. that s the primary damage area at this point. punch number two is coming where we are further points north into the metropolitan area of houston.
anywhere from 15 - 30 inches of rain are yet to come. how are you preparing, is it too late to evacuate and wait out the storm? i don t think it s necessary. is something we deal with on the gulf coast. we have experience dealing with weather events like this, to answer your question, at the turn-of-the-century we built a seawall. i think were prepared for it i think there s nothing we can do about it but ride it out. arthel: let s talk about the current conditions. is it drizzling at this point can you give us an idea of how much galveston is flooded. i took a ride and i look like
from the 5:00 advisory from the hurkd cent hurricane center now is stationery. just as we worried about. stationery. not moving at all. and you think, well, the storm is over land, it should start to die. this will be okay. no. because a third of this storm is still over the gulf of mexico. and this is a very warm body of water. that is why the storm got so big so quickly in the first place. if you have one third of the storm still over water, it is not dying as rapidly as we would like. it s still going to grab the gulf of mexico moisture and put it on shore right into houston, galveston, all the way over to lake charles. and they have it will also push it back into austin and san antonio which it s already doing thousa now. and there is a potential for the storm to spin. west of houston, they did have a spin. may have been a small tornado on
the new get impressive numbers. were talking about numbers running into the 30 range and further to the north as you go to galveston or houston area for talking about big numbers. perhaps the 15 - 20 inches. the city that notoriously floats. even though they have not seen that area yet were talking tuesday or wednesday. more rain is on the way. it s astounding that it will just sit there. thank you. tropical storm harvey is blamed for one death in southeast texas after slamming the shore as a category four hurricane. it is expected to keep pounding the region with strong wind and heavy rain for the next several days. crews are assessing the damage