Remember the Texas coast is sparsely populated...

[logybogy]

at least compared to Florida.

Other than Houston, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville it's pretty much nothing but cows.

Hurricane Brett hit Kennedy County in Texas as a Cat 4, population 400 in the whole county!

http://www.greatdreams.com/bret99.htm

[HurricaneBill]

Bret was actually a low end Category 3 at landfall. Plus, Bret had a very small wind field of hurricane force winds.

[InimanaChoogamaga]

True. But Brett was very small. Rita will probably be larger than Brett. Edit: I see I tied with HurricaneBill on this thought.

[gatorcane]

I think you can substitute any state on the Gulf coast and their respective cities in your statement

[gilbert88]

That's without mentioning how vulnerable is inland Texas to flooding.

[Starburst]

Texas coastline is more populated than you think it just so happened that Brett made landfall on one of the largest ranches in south texas and that 400 population was mostly ranch hands and that scenario playing out again is one in a thousand it was pure luck.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Wrongo.

The Rio Grande Valley area that includes Brownsville, McAllen and SPI-- Closing into a combined population of 1 Million

Coastal Bend which includes Corpus, Kingsville, up to Victoria and several little towns in between. Another 500,000 to 700,000

Houston/Galvseton metro area down to north of Victoria and to the Louisanna state line- What 4 to 5 million plus another 200,000 or so from Louisianna?

Sparsley populated? I think not.

[Starburst]

Thanks cctxhurricanewatcher for verification on this I have no clue why people think there are nothing but cows in Texas how wrong that is.

[JQ Public]

I swear Bret was a four????

[jkt21787]

I swear Bret was a four????

I believe it was re-evaluated as a three.

[Stratosphere747]

I swear Bret was a four????

Bret's center crossed the Texas coast over the central portion of Padre Island, midway between Brownsville and Corpus Christi, at 0000 UTC, 23 August. It had weakened to a category three hurricane with 100 knot winds and a pressure of 951mb by the time of landfall.

[canegrl04]

Yep.All we do in Texas is ride the range and herd cattle

[Starburst]

Yes sickening isn't it!!! I guess we should say that all there is in Florida is sand crabs instead of cows

[jkt21787]

Using one county as an example for a whole state?

That's bad reasoning, and very wrong in the case.

[Galvestongirl]

Yep.All we do in Texas is ride the range and herd cattle

uh, dont forget that we also chase the tumble weed and sit on our porches playin our banjo and guitar.

[canegrl04]

"chase the tumble weed and sit on our porches playin our banjo"

Yeah I forgot . And all us ladies have big hair

[southerngale]

at least compared to Florida.

Other than Houston, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville it's pretty much nothing but cows.

Wow...unbelievable.

*MOOOOOOOOOOOOO*

[soonertwister]

I believe the hurricane made landfall on King Ranch, which is a huge ranch that runs right to the coastline - 825,000 acres. The county where King Ranch is located is one of the least populated in the lower 48 states, with something like 0.5 people per square mile.

[StrongWind]

Yes sickening isn't it!!! I guess we should say that all there is in Florida is sand crabs instead of cows

Yep, in Florida it's a major industry - sand crabs. And them SC wranglers sure are tough hombres.

[Starburst]

Yes sickening isn't it!!! I guess we should say that all there is in Florida is sand crabs instead of cows

Yep, in Florida it's a major industry - sand crabs. And them SC wranglers sure are tough hombres.

I bet they are and I would not want to mess with them either