My parents evacuated from Angleton to my Aunt Laurie’s house in Houston, and they are fine. The street is flooded, a tree and part of the fence blew over at Laurie’s house, and they have no power right now, but everyone is okay.
One thing I discovered yesterday is that you can watch Twitter posts from people from a particular area as they are posted in real time. To see posts from Galveston right now, for example, you can go here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+near:galveston+within:15mi
I was also watching Houston: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+near:houston+within:15mi
and Angleton: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+near:angleton+within:15mi