Best wishes to everyone hit hard by Ike.
And not to minimize your own difficulties, but to show how far Ike's mess reached- our Epsilon chapter at Northwestern University has water damage.
Yes, that is correct, we had enough
flooding from rivers
around Chicago that chapter houses at Northwestern were affected! Major freeways heading north out of Chicago, and east into Indiana were completely shut down because we'd gotten so much water all the way up here!
Thankfully we've had a lovely, DRY past few days. I hope everyone's doing a bit better.