John Metz Quotations

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Katrina definitely changed people's perspective on hurricanes. I think the complacency may have been eroded away, and that is a good thing for Texas because, hopefully, people will now be more aware and they will heed evacuation orders.

It looks like we'll see a rapid rise in the tides, Wednesday night. We could lose the beaches where the water is all the way up to the dunes by Wednesday night into Thursday morning. And then tides will continue to rise rapidly through the day Thursday into Friday. It's going to be a nail biter.

And Texas is definitely in the crosshairs of this hurricane. The (National) Hurricane Center track takes it south of Galveston right now, but we're at least five days out.

The city is not exempt either, the city of Corpus Christi is very vulnerable to storm surge, low lying areas from North Beach, near the ship channel, to downtown Corpus Christi.

In downtown, that would be 3 feet over the seawall in that case. But that's assuming a Category 4 moving right over the south side of the city.