It just takes that one hurricane over your area that makes for a very bad year. |
It looks like the Houston and Galveston area has really lucked out. |
It may weaken a little bit more, but don't put too much stock in that, because it's a very powerful hurricane. |
It seems like this year all but three or maybe four of them have impacted land. |
It was not a very big deviation to the south. If you can forecast that, I've got a job for you. |
It will continue to pound that region for at least 24 hours. |
It will likely continue to weaken throughout the day, but what we're concerned with as it moves out through the Gulf of Mexico and starts coming up through the north, it could indeed gain hurricane status, |
It will still have a chance to come back and strengthen in the Gulf of Mexico. |
It would be an unbelievable record to have another season like that, that's just not very realistic. |
It's barely a tropical storm and we will likely downgrade that -- in fact I'm sure we'll downgrade that -- to a tropical depression within a couple of hours. |
It's capable of causing catastrophic damage, |
It's capable of causing catastrophic damage, ... Even well-built structures will have tremendous damage. Of course, what we're really worried about is the loss of lives. |
It's going to be a long couple of days here for the Yucatan Peninsula, |
It's going to be a long couple of days here for the Yucatan Peninsula. |
It's going to be over the Yucatan over a long period, |