How windy does it get in Texas? Just wondering because I could see these things laying over and smashed up in a good wind storm. Do you need to be elevated or will ground blind's work for your first season until you determine the best permanent stand placement sites? I wouldn't build anything extravagant or cumbersome until I knew exactly where I wanted them. A guy on here built a really cool portable shooting house on wheels and posted the pics a few months back, he got some of the materials from Hershey's Foods. But isn't it getting late for this, once again suggesting ground blinds being the better option for now.