So did Ike get you?

[CheezeFlixz]

Compared to areas of coastal Texas and Louisiana I can't complain.

I lost power for 5 days and ran on generator and I lost several large oaks, but I have a lot of firewood for this winter. We had about 10 hours of 80+ mph winds, gust of over 100 mph which this far inland is very rare.

I just put a new roof on the house 3 weeks ago and luckily it held up, not one shingle gone and the guy down the road had his roof nearly stripped by winds. WE didn't get a drop of rain and just across the river in MO and IL they got over a foot of rain.

But, all in all it was bad area wide, but few houses were lost, few lives were lost and it wasn't nearly as bad as the coast, so I can't complain. I didn't like loosing a bunch of big trees, but I have plenty of more and somehow none of them hit the house, barns or shops ... they got really close but missed.

So any damage in your world from Ike? 

[Raffine]

Good to hear you got through OK. Tough about the trees but like you said, that makes for lots of firewood.

We got some strong winds but almost no rain, which is bad news since we are still technically in a severe drought. For the last couple of years the only good rain we've gotten this time of year is from dying hurricanes passing over.

[ER]

Yup.

No electric for three days. Trees down. Debris everywhere. Shingles torn off my roof. For as far inland as I live, that's unprecedented.

[Derf]

I live on the Texas Gulf Coast (Corpus Christi area). We got nothing. No rain, no wind, nothing but panicked people boarding up houses, school closures and business lost. The parent company to the place I do contract work for is in Dallas, and they were panicking for us, making sure we did back-ups of computer info, stowing electronic equipment in windowless rooms, etc. They ended up getting more than we did. I wonder if they took precautions...

Anyway, glad to hear from some who were in the path of the storm. I'm glad y'all made it through all right.

[ER]

The brother of my college roommate lives in Corpus Christi, and he and his wife and three-year-old son took a conveniently timed vacation to Arizona when Ike was forecast to possibly hit the city. Now of course he regrets going but was glad to come home to a house perfectly intact and as they left it. Better safe than sorry, I guess, but he's the type of person who would have stayed and ridden even the worst storm out if he was single. I used to always say to him, "Trey, dude, you're gonna meet a bad end." Ha.

[indianasmith]

I live in NE Texas, between Dallas and Texarkana.  The storm passed about 40 miles to our west, and all we got were 35-45 mph winds and two inches of rain . . . my family that lives near Houston got beat up pretty good; both my nephews and my niece are still without power, although my sister and her husband got theirs turned back on.