I understand where you're coming from. I open the doors and windows of my house because the weather is so nice and all I can hear is chain saws. Huber Heights sets on a rise and we got hammered pretty good. We still have traffic lights not working and the schools just started back today. I consider myself extremely lucky through all this. I had just done all my grocery shopping on Wed. before the storm and because I knew Ike was going to pummel the price of gas I had ensured all 3 vehicles were full of gas. My neighborhood is young, my house is 8 years old, so we don't have any big trees close to houses and all the utilities are underground. We never lost power but some houses did suffer wind damages i.e. siding and trim. The severity of the winds caught everyone by surprise. It didn't help that the big electric companies had sent so much of their manpower and equipment to the golf coast to help out there.