Were the trees in your neighborhood built to withstand a hurricane? I don't know about Texas trees but when storms knock down Alabama trees and those trees fall on houses, the houses go down too.
Trees are probably one of the reasons northwest Houston lost so much power...Lots of tall pine trees...
"Were the trees in your neighborhood built to withstand a hurricane?"
Nope, trees fall over. But I have yet to see a tree that would flatten a subdivision house -- in the Houston area at least. Alabama might be different. But even if one of the trees next to my house fell on my house the most it would do is cause roof damage.
Flying debris? Even at 100 mph debris that hits the wall is not going to shatter it. In fact, during Alicia I did not see one window that got shattered by flying debris in my Forest Bend neighborhood. That hurrican blew up too quickly for most people to board up their windows, too. There was a lot of roof damage, but the only house that took serious structural damage was one that got hit by a tornado. One -- in a subdivision of about 150 houses. You are just as likely to get hit by one in Austin as in Katy.
There were some houses in that subdivision that got totaled, however. The ones near the creek that got flooded.