Yes, I was born in Beaumont, and spent my childhood summers at our cabins in Crystal Beach and Bolivar. We have reunions every two years.
I still have family and friends with vacation property there, been trying to get thru to them all day, talked to one in Beaumont, said everyone is fine, still don't have info on the property tho.
This is so sad...I am looking now for some pics.
Thanks for the info.
There is a Coast Guard aerial video
link at post #1486. It is not the best quality, but if you know the area, you should be able to make out landmarks, etc. It looked to me that they went east of Galveston Island in the video.