I feel bad for the folks in South Texas/North Mexico...it's gonna be bad. But I'm sure they have/are preparing for it, you can't ever be to safe when it comes to hurricanes. Thankfully Alabama doesn't get to many hurricanes...we had Katrina and Ivan though, those were bad, but we mostly get alot of severe thunder storms and tornado's from the arm bands of the hurricanes. I remember when hurricane Opal came through Alabama in 93 or 94, it was still a strong hurricane when it came over my house (8 hours inland from the coast) it did alot of damage..