Being in Houston we got a bad blow from Ike but managed to hang on and didn't sail away.  lol  Lots of tree limbs (big ones!) down but basically no damage to the house.  Yea.  Power has been restored after being without for three days but have to wait to get someone out to fix the tv dish as it got messed up.  Our street is the only ones with power in our neighborhood so we were very lucky.  I've been through 4 really bad hurricanes but this is by and far the worst.  Moved very slow and did alot of damage.