glad it didn't come down all at one time. >> director of emergency management there in san patricio cityn texas, william zagorski. thank you so much. best of luck to your crews there. >> so let's move on now to galveston, texas. we've got cnn national correspondent ed lavandera there live for us. what are you seeing where you are? >> galveston island holding on rather well just on the eastern edge of this hurricane. but it is from here where a lot of people are monitoring closely those flooding conditions that could develop well into the day and whether or not any of those high water rescues or swift water rescues need to be launched from. just east of -- just west from where we are communities under mandatory evacuation orders. most of galveston had been under voluntary evacuation orders. the rain hasn't been as heavy as it has been closer to the center of the storm but the wins ha sw sustained strongly throughout the night. that's something that's interesting, usually after rainfall the winds died down. but they have sustained themselves throughout the night. still blowing heavily. loo