I talked to my buddy who runs a 125' crew boat out of LA this am ; they are making a run for Galveston and for sure he's bucking a heavy quartering swell .
He's passing fully loaded supertankers heading for port in LA and TX .
Traffic out of New Orleans is creeping along at 2mph.

The storm is showing 200mph gusts with no sign of weakening before landfall .
here's a handy page to watch the progress from :
http://www.geocities.com/tropicwx/
/pops