Originally Posted By: SBRaider

A lot of the "heaps" of 2x4's on the Texas coast were caused by waves and storm surge, and were well built.

I meant "some heaps of 2x4s are impact damage [includes waves such as flowing storm surge] but there are many very old weekend cabins on Galveston Bay that weren't much to start with."

I grew up in the Galveston Bay area near Seabrook/El Lago and rode out Alicia, a comparable storm, in Nassau Bay.