couple of hours ago in this parking lot. a massive sign that really could have caused some serious threat to life had anyone been underneath of it. fortunately this area has been mostly evacuated since early this morning, not by mandatory order but by voluntary. a lot of people getting out of the way of this storm as these winds come through. now, it's not feeling like we're anywhere close to what was predicted in terms of, you know, 125-mile-an-hour winds. but we're definitely experiencing torrential rain and very heavy wind right now. >> katy beck in corpus christi, thank you very much. sadly, hurricanes love things like burger king signs and cracker barrel signs and the roof over gasoline pumps, among the first things to go when you cover a storm. we're fortunate to be joined tonight by john nielsen gamen, a ph.d. in meteorology, texas a&m