We boarded up our house in Port Aransas since it was initially going to hit at Corpus Christi - no damage there, but we have friends that lost everything in Houston. My son went and got his daughter from Houston to stay in San Antonio until it blew over since her mother wouldn't evacuate. (Hope those genes didn't pass on to her daughter...)
No one we know was hurt - but they sure had a lot of damage. As of news time this evening, they are still telling folks to not go back to Galveston to check on their property - that their property is probably not there and there are no water or electrical services yet. So sad.
We didn't expect to have a house left in Port A. if it hit in Corpus. Guess we got lucky.