good afternoon folks newbie here real interesting chat sitting here about 40 miles from gulf shores waiting on it to come whats a realistic sustainted wind at land fall

While this statement could be rendered utterly erroneous, I would *at least* expect a landfall at an intensity a little stronger than what he is right now. I am thinking strong cat 2/weak 3. This is after a round of further intensification and then some weakening as he treks further up the Gulf of Mexico. 40 miles inland belies the strongest winds... but if he landfalls near your location, I would expect to see winds over the 100 mph mark.