hehehe, I guess some people who were not right underneath Ike (2008) thought that was going to be a walk in the park...
That was pretty much a Catagory 2 storm, but the storm surge was a Cat 3/4...
I sat on my small front porch in a nice foldable chair (out of the main air stream) during most of Ike...It would probably be the worst one I would do like that, if it had been anything more intense, we would have locked up and headed out...
The big problem was the aftermath...We had no power for 16 days...I’ve seen and heard worse...
But we are better prepared because of this risk and area we live in...
If Ike had gone a little farther to the west, the winds and flooding would probably have been significantly worse for Houston. Makes you wonder what the 1900 Galveston hurricane was really like, esp. since they didn’t have a sea wall back then.