Help Texans...

[DESTRUCTION5]

I know this will be a bad storm for the Texas coast but I am not Familiar with the actual layout...If it were to hit where its supposed t ohit what sort of Population and Topagraphy are we talking about? I know Galveston is a relativly large town but not familiar with anything around it...

[skysummit]

The Corpus Christi area is beautiful. I was there last month. It would be tragic for it to go near there.

[DESTRUCTION5]

The Corpus Christi area is beautiful. I was there last month. It would be tragic for it to go near there.

I think thats a bit south of landfall...

[jasons2k]

The Houston Metro Area is now urbanized all the way to Galveston.

The next county over, Brazoria County, is home to Dow Chemical and the world's largest petrochemical complex. There is a conglomeration of towns - Freeport, Lake Jackson, Clute, Oyster Creek and others called "Brazosport" with about 60,000 total residents. The town limits are virtually indistinguishable; it's like a single small city. Brazoria County is growing rapidly and is quickly merging with Houston.

Matagorda county is unurbanized and low density.

An excellent resource is the online Handbook of Texas:

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/

[swampdude]

There are plenty of folks living in the area between Galveston and Corpus Christi. A strike there would put the Houston/Galveston area in the northeast quadrant. The size and intensity of the storm would then dictate the damage to those large population areas. As the coast of Texas goes, the Freeport area(the current bullseye) is one of the less populated but still with a considerable population spread among many small to medium size cities. I'm not sure I answered your question, but honestly there is not a "good" place to park a hurricane on the Texas coast or anybody else's coast for that matter!

[skysummit]

The Corpus Christi area is beautiful. I was there last month. It would be tragic for it to go near there.

I think thats a bit south of landfall...

Landfall hasn't occured yet.

[mchaney2028]

Port O'Connor and/or Port Lavaca.

Hurricane Claudette left Victoria w/o power for days and wiped out a bunch of old trees. It was only a CAT 1.

It's been a long time since Carla.

If you want to know about hurricanes and hitting that specific area, go to http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostT ... nolaTx.htm

Everyone talks about Galveston but Indianola is where most Europeans in TX arrived at.

[milankovitch]

I know this will be a bad storm for the Texas coast but I am not Familiar with the actual layout...If it were to hit where its supposed t ohit what sort of Population and Topagraphy are we talking about? I know Galveston is a relativly large town but not familiar with anything around it...

You might want to download google earth. It's what I look at when there is a hurricane heading for a ceratin area.
http://earth.google.com/

[Stormtrack]

Freeport, Tx. is about 45 miles from Galveston and a storm the intensity of Katrina would have catastrophic affects on the city of Galveston, which would be on the dirty side. It is closer to Freeport than Slidell, La is to Biloxi. Houston would see major affect whether it came in at Galveston (50 miles) or Freeport (63 miles). Corpus Christi has about 400,000 people. Probably the best place would be for it to go is the sparsely populated area between Corpus Christi and Brownsville.

[jes]

When I lived in the Clear Creek area everyone talked about Carla. That is 30 miles North of Galveston around the aerospace complex. There are a number of lakes and waterways in that area. During Carla many of my friends homes were flooded.