I dunno. I don’t think Galveston got wiped. A lot got flooded and major repair will have to take place, but the seawall protected it (again.) The Bolivar Peninsula (where you got off the ferry and drove through) got wiped.
I just realized, actually probably knew it in the past and forgot, but I just realized why beach property has that sort of rustic, weatherbeaten look to it. There’s really no point in spending a lot of money to pretty up something that might be wiped off the map at any time. Not that the rest of our homes can’t either, but the beach property is particularly vulnerable.
Beach property takes a weather-beating from the wind coming off the gulf. It picks up sand and kind of sandblasts everything.