Several El Paso organizations including, the El Paso fire department, Salvation Army and the Red Cross, spent most of Saturday setting up a shelter at the convention center in anticipation of the hurricane.

The group set up hundreds of cots and created a makeshift dining hall.

The El Paso chapter of the Red Cross is preparing for the worst.

Saturday Mark Matthys of the American Red Cross told KFOX, "We are expecting a few hundred. It could be more than that. It could be less than that. We planned as if we are going to get 600-800."

Even though most of the evacuees that coming over the weekend will be from hospitals along the coast, the shelter will serve as a place for anyone dodging the storms path.

"We are setting up cots, because if we do have family members that do come with them we want to offer them a place to stay. We want to be ready to help however we can," Matthys said.

The state of texas is preparing for the potential of an estimated 45,000 evacuees.