Not Again! Running Away from Hurricane Ike, two hurricanes in two weeks!

Hurricane Ike approaching Houston. 8 hours to Land fall.
We are staying with elder Ho family and enjoying lunch (three cup chicken, a popular taiwanese dish) before the hurricane strike tonight.
This is the photo from last week in New Orleans. Hurricane Gustave blew away the chimney on top of our apartment block and maintenance crew are reerecting the chimney. The repair hasn't even been completed and we already stumbled upon another hurricane while visiting Houston.

It seems like we are running away from hurricane every week. A week or so ago, Hurricane Gustav struck New Orleans. We had to evacuate to Memphis and we spent five days on the road. We got back to New Orleans last Wednesday night and we barely got back to our normal routine before we flew to Houston this week. I had to attend some work related meetings during the week and then all four of us are going to Cindy & CW wedding here in Houston.

Then out of the blue, Hurricane Ike that was supposed to struck South Texas changed course and is about to strike Galveston/Houston area tonight. So here we are in Houston, two hurricanes in two consecutive weeks. It is a category two hurricane right now with windspeed of 110mph. Meredith is supposed to be the flower girl at this wedding. Our friend rescheduled their wedding to Sunday in order for the hurricane to pass through on Friday and Saturday. We debated and struggled quite a bit on Thursday afternoon whether we should stay to attend the wedding or flew out early on Thursday night. In the end, we decided to hunker down in Houston to ride out the storm. I think we felt that we are here for a purpose and if we go back early our trip will be a complete waste and our friend's wedding will be without a flower girl (they already have enough disruption to their wedding due to the hurricane so we don't want to add to their frustration). Anyway, we checked out of the hotel and now we are at elder Ho's house to stay for two days to ride out the hurricane. Tonight at about 1am the hurricane will make land fall, I hope we make the right decision and the storm will not be so bad that we endangered the safety of Meredith and Isaac by staying.