We finally made it back to New Orleans today after Houston airport reopen on Monday. We evacuated to Memphis because of Hurricane Gustav two weeks ago but we never seen the full fury of Gustav as it was ripping through Louisiana. This time, we got to witness the full force of Hurricane Ike in the middle of the action. Although Ike weakened to a category 1-2 hurricane by the time it reached Houston, it was quite a hair raising experience to have 90mph wind howling outside and rainwater whipping the window until it rattled. We stayed on the second floor of Ho's residence as the peak of the hurricane wind passed through that area around 3 am. Everyone of us including Meredith, Boon Hong and Isaac are awaken around 2am as the wind noise started to become too loud. I tried to put ear plugs in Meredith ear so soften the noise. At one point, I tried to put Meredith in the closet because I thought the windows were shaking. Meredith was arguing with me that it is not a hurricane and it is only raining hard outside. She was wide awake from 2 am onwards. She was oblivious to the danger outside and was having fun walking around with torch light (we lost electricity around 2am) and also wearing ear plugs. I think she was so riled up by the windnoise and me pacing back and forth that she did not sleep the whole time. Well, thank God we made it through this without any harm. We based our decision to stay on the government issued order to take shelter in place and not have to evacuate and also all of our friends stayed behind in Houston. If we have to do it over again, I think we will evacuate for a category 2 storm.
Photo taken in New Orleans after Gustav- Car crushed by falling bricks from the apartment building.
Trampoline being blown onto a tree top right outside of our apartment in New Orleans.
For some reason, more Shell stations lost their signboards than other gas stations that I came across.
Garage doors being crushed by the high wind right outside Golden Food supermarket near Bellaire Chinatown in Houston
There are downed power line and cables everywhere, some dangling dangerously close to the street.
It was very hot and sticky after we lost power due the hurricane. On the second night, Issac slept without cloth on and he actually slept better that night than we have AC on.
We finally made it the wedding. It was worth the wait and going through a category 1-2 hurricane. It was a wonderful wedding, more to come on this.
The wedding was conducted with candlelight and illuminated with love since there is no power in church the day after hurricane.
Meredith (and mom) is very excited to be Cindy's flower girl after waiting many months, perhaps close to a year.
Photo taken in New Orleans after Gustav- Car crushed by falling bricks from the apartment building.
Trampoline being blown onto a tree top right outside of our apartment in New Orleans.
For some reason, more Shell stations lost their signboards than other gas stations that I came across.
Garage doors being crushed by the high wind right outside Golden Food supermarket near Bellaire Chinatown in Houston
There are downed power line and cables everywhere, some dangling dangerously close to the street. 
We finally made it the wedding. It was worth the wait and going through a category 1-2 hurricane. It was a wonderful wedding, more to come on this.
The wedding was conducted with candlelight and illuminated with love since there is no power in church the day after hurricane. 
Meredith (and mom) is very excited to be Cindy's flower girl after waiting many months, perhaps close to a year.
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