IKE

Don't really know what to say...

The folk at wikipedia had this to say about the third most destructive hurricane to make landfall in the continental US: (full article here)

On the morning of September 13, 2008, the eye of Hurricane Ike approached the upper Texas coast, making landfall at 2:10 a.m. CDT over the east end of Galveston Island, with a high storm surge, and travelled north up Galveston Bay, along the east side of Houston. People in low-lying areas who had not heeded evacuation orders, in single-family one- or two-story homes, were warned by the weather service that they may "face certain death" from the overnight storm surge, a statement that unfortunately turned out to be true for some who refused to evacuate.
In regional Texas towns, electrical power began failing on Sept. 12 before 8 p.m. CDT, leaving millions without power (estimates range from 2.8 million to 4.5 million customers). Grocery store shelves in the Houston area were left empty for weeks in the aftermath of the storm.

The Houston Chronicle also has good coverage of the hurricane aftermath

George and I were stranded in Canada as the airport was closed in Houston for a few days, but our place survived and all our friends were unharmed thank god.

I see no need to post photos of everyone's tragedy here, but here's few that caught my eye...

The heavy rains that came withIke changed the usually busy I-10 fwy near our house to this.
And Buffalo Bayou by our place rose to the top of it's banks - a good 30ft