ETW :

Can't answer for downed trees in Texas but here is some info from the storm zone in Miss.

Within 100 miles of Miss. coast (just in Miss. not La, & Ala.} estimated downed trees --over 1 billion board feet of lumber including 150 miles estimated 1.25 billion board feet. Roughly 90 days to salvage before no value. Prices dropped from $420 per thousand to $20 per if you can find someone to take it off your hands. Entire forests for a hundred miles inland the width of Miss. wiped out as if a giant hand had smashed them down. Estimated that there are 50 tons per acre of downed timber averaged over the area.

On the other point on this thread. In the central Miss. area Feds. turned over for prosecution 5200 cases of criminal fraud by people getting money from FEMA many arrested already. Most getting thousands of $ when they had no or little loss. The ripping off of the tax payer and those who donated to Red Cross by the something for nothing crowd is beyond belief. They have tied up the workers(resources) from Fema and Red Cross for weeks processing suposed claims for $200 dollars worth of frozen food lost while there are people on the coast living in tents without power and water. ewest