National Hurricane Center
The floods could still come and they don't know about their homes, but they made it through the night.
At least two counties were struck by tornadoes, ripping apart homes and other buildings.
Here's how it looks from the Hurricane Hunters' perspective.
At multiple points, viewers feared the worst for Jeff Piotrowski.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
One meteorologist estimated 20 trillion gallons of water could fall on Texas in the next week.
The hurricane was upgraded to a Category 4 shortly before its expected landfall.
The National Weather Service described the storm as "about as fierce as they come!"
The National Hurricane Center said it would strengthen into a Category 3 hurricane before hitting the Texas coast.
Tropical Storm Don update looks like it could be a subtweet.
The storm caused its first reported fatality, a 10-year-old boy in Alabama, on Wednesday.