We are approx. 15 miles north of San Antonio, TX. Although we were told to brace for high winds and extensive rain/flooding, we have been spared both. .5" rain so far and max of 45 mph winds. Lots of low water crossings are flooded and roads closed, but in general, we are good. San Antonio is serving as a shelter point for people coming in from the coast. Sat. & yesterday the gulf coast got hammered between Corpus Christi and further northeast. Rockport & Port Aransas on the Padre Island barrier area on the gulf coast (a place we vacation every year) were hit very hard, with 150 mph winds and heavy rain/storm surge. Significant property destruction at the coast from Sat/Sun impact. Fortunately, they had a mandatory evacuation order for the coastal towns (the Mayor of Rockport said that if you violated the order and stayed, you needed to write your name and social security number in permanent marker on your arm so they could identify the body). After the storm surge, the flooding took over. A big problem is that this is an extremely slow storm, moving at only 5 mph, which means it is spending a lot of time over each area, and dumping a lot of water, wind (and a couple dozen hurricanes) on the areas as it travels inland. Fortunately, only one death so far, from a fire in a building that was not evacuated.
Today, the storm has stalled about 50 miles southeast of San Antonio and is dropping 25-30" of rain per day on the area to the area east of the storm as it sweeps water in from the gulf (counterclockwise rotation). Houston is now in a critical flood stage (wind is not much of a problem now), having received a full year's worth of rain in the last 24 hours, and as much as 50" more of rain expected in the next 2 days.
We are sitting tight (and safe) in our area, but the news pictures of the coastal towns and Houston look really bad. Houston people are also now be evacuated to San Antonio. Areas northeast of us (Austin, etc) are getting lots of rain, but I have not heard of any major issues except for rivers overflowing.
Best news is that everyone is working to help the people. Keep praying - its not over yet.