This storm that just passed was very surreal.  Things were so bad that you only knew what was going on immediately around you and what you saw on TV.  
 
I saw this picture of I 10 east between Houston and Beaumont.  There are whitecaps.  You could surf.  This is a before and after.  
 
Unbelievable.  
 
 

Wow!
 
Here's hopin' Irma heads north and doesn't go into the Gulf!  You guys have had your fill for the next 100 years.

It's been pretty bad. I was following a lot of the action on social media in real time as well. It was very heart tugging. I can say enough about how proud I am about how Texans came together to take care of there fellow man.

Of course, the fact that you're all allowed to pack heat has kept the looting to a minimum too.

craigb
Wow!
 
Here's hopin' Irma heads north and doesn't go into the Gulf!  You guys have had your fill for the next 100 years.

DON'T MOVE TO PORTLAND!

I've been watching Irma VERY carefully as two days ago the predictions said it was heading directly for us here in Barbados - now its shifted and we're only going to get the edge of the hurricane - but the poor people in  Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla seem to have it heading directly for them - and its predicted to be a category 4 hurricane with wind gust up to 175 mph........I really feel for them,  as I have been on a Caribbean Island when a big hurricane strikes and it is devastating - as normally everything on the Island is knocked out / destroyed, help can really take time to get there -  I hope it decides to just disappear into the Atlantic somewhere and spare the Caribbean Islands and Florida ,  Carolina's in the US - my thoughts are with everyone who might be in its way.
Nigel
 

We really dodged a bullet in Corpus Christi.  It landed just north of us around Rockport and Port Aransas, where the most wind damage was.  I had around 80 mph wind gusts at my house.  My neighbor's tree blew over.  I just lost some fence and my trees are all beat up.  They had forecast that we would get all that rain, but I think we only had about 6 inches.

marcos69
...but I think we only had about 6 inches.

It's not often you read that as being a positive thing!