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Welcome back. hurricane harvey is the strongest storm to hit texas in about 50 years and the strongest hurricane to hit the u.s. mainland in almost 12 years. and we continue to follow it here on msnbc. to give you some perspective, here are the wind gusts that we're talking about here in the past 12 hours. peak wind gusts around port arkansas around 132. lamar, 110. rockport, 108. all throughout 2 night, we are talking about the threat of wind gusts, rain, storm surge. but now, there's there appears to be more of a threat with tornados here with this storm massively flooding with the threat of...

Galveston that know what it's like to ride out this hurricane. there was ike. you were talking to me about it in 2008. what was the mindset of a lot of residents there knowing that, no, this is not necessarily the same kind of threat as further south in the coast, but when it comes to the flooding that may come in the next couple of days with this system stalling, how are they approaching that? >>. >> they have an understanding of what is going on here. they knew this wasn't going to be as strong as hurricane ike. they weren't as worried about the winds in the storm surge. you can see water ma...