 News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Rich Thomason. The winds are fierce, the rain's intense, the storm surge raging as Category 1 Hurricane Beryl pummels the Texas Gulf Coast after making landfall between Galveston and Corpus Christi several hours ago. Hurricane Beryl strengthened before the center made landfall near Matagorda, Texas on the Gulf Coast with maximum winds of 80 miles an hour early this morning.