particular area. fortunately, sean, this is about the only bright spot, it s hitting in an area that is less populated as far as a direct hit goes. you get corpus christi in the southwest, houston and galveston in northeast. as you ve been mentioning sean: i don t want to interrupt but important information. only because you ve been on my radio program for an hour and a half the last three days, you ve been writing me about this storm for over a week. this is important. you told me earlier today, this storm is going to push 75 miles inland. it s going to kind of stop. maybe beyond that. then it s going to make a turn. and then it s going to keep pounding rain. it s going to happen tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, sunday, sunday night, monday, monday night, into tuesday. how far does it go and what does it mean for the people that are directly hit and let s go up the eastern coast of texas and tell everybody that s in harm s way
will be done there. i don t mean that in a nasty way. i m just saying, it looks to me like rockport is going to be ground zero for the worst this storm can deliver as far as wind goes. i would not be surprised i am watching some of the monitors. if we see some 150-mile-an-hour gusts. ranchers pass, they had a gust to 161. this storm is hitting in an area where i m sure the governor, he would tell you about some of the texas hurricane lawyer. ed, a famous port was destroyed back in the 1800s by two major hurricanes back-to-back. that s why galveston and houston became the big port on the gulf coast. where is hitting is almost legendary as far as storms go. we just haven t seen them over the past 20-30 years of this
steve harrigan was saying this was not that big of a deal. the storm is really going to be the story because there was no system to push or pull it out of the way. it was going to sit on the houston area. that was going to be the big story. all of a sudden, we have a category 3 and category 4 later tonight. this thing became a major severe when the storm. almost out of nowhere. we were expecting tropical storm force winds. now we have winds as strong as they can come. now 130-mile-an-hour wind gusts in the middle of the storm. this is about 30 miles west of that. we didn t catch the eye quite. we are getting about 100-mile-an-hour winds. 60-70-mile-an-hour sustained. i ve done many of these and every time i come out here, it gets a little bit worse. now the big question is, what does this storm do?
it will still spread out towards the houston area. the storm weakens over the next three days. then back out in the gulf of mexico. sean: was steve harrigan, just to be very clear here if we could put up the map one more time we are talking about corpus christi to galveston houston. it s going to be there all the way through tuesday. back into the gulf. it gathers more strength and comes back on shore. you are dealing with basically a week really, really long period of time. go ahead. it is a siege but it will be weakening over the next 72 hours. the wind will be as big a problem. the one problem you do have, i m not try to panic anybody in houston or galveston. what i am worried about is if this thing comes all the way back at you. even if it s 40-50-