We were building a house during Ike and staying in a rent house that was very much just termites holding hands. My wife was on the ride-out team at a hospital, so it was just me and the dogs. I just drank and watched the news until the power went out, then hunkered on a mattress in the hallway when it went over. How that POS stayed up, I have no idea, but it did. Fences knocked down, but no roof or window damage.
Like everyone said, there were a couple of unseasonably cool days after the storm. Then it got hot again. We didn't notice until then that our POS rent house had no screens on the windows, so once the heat came back, so did the prehistoric mammoth mosquitos and we had no way to keep them out. Or the dogs in. Had to get netting when the stores opened back up, but didn't help with the dogs. Ask the mailman when delivery resumed.
The power went back on across the street a day after the storm. I got to look at the porch lights of those houses for two weeks before ours came back on. Another blessing since our POS had an electric stove.