Heres a story of a lovely hurricane, that decided to wipe out all of Galveston. It also did some damage to Houston, the worst hit being the lake homes.
Here's a stroy of a 3 person family, the with pets decided to evacuate. South Dakota was our temporay home, but we returned four days later.
One the drive back we speed though oklahoma, passing diaster relief trucks here and there. With no gas from Dallas to Houston we made with a some to spare. Returning to a house with power we boiled water, and noted no real damage.
Thats the way we survived Hurricane Ike!
Here are some pictures of the damage to our house..just trees down. Apparently our front door blew open but no damage from that either..
From the backyard you would have just thought we had some wind...
FYI..my area never lost power. The house across the street lost its chimney to a tree (the chimney was in another yard)..We were very lucky nothing happened to our house!