 Reports that 2.5 million Texas customers are without power. CBS's Janet Chamleon in Sugar Land. Storm surge rose to about seven feet in areas just west of Galveston Bay. It seemed like this was a lot worse than some of the other ones that they said were worse. Residents in Palacios, southwest of Houston, inspected damage to their homes and counted their blessings. That tree limb right there could have been through the roof of our house instead of our shed. That one could have gone on our house.