As an interesting aside that no one talks about, when a 400 mile wide hurricane spins, it not only drops rain and brings wind, but that wind also picks up dust and pollen.  That dust and pollen can be dropped anywhere further along the curve of the storm.  So when you're on the 'clean' side of a hurricane, you can experience that from all the areas the hurricane touches.  Needless to say, my allergies exploded shortly after going outside today.  It's been about as bad as the height of spring.

I have to say my area of the greater Houston metroplex got off very easy.  I tried to take some pictures of some damage, but there was almost none.  We didn't get flooding rains either.  If it wasn't for the pine needles everywhere, you'd hardly know anything happened.

This is the one tree that I saw down.  It didn't do any damage.


Dirt and debris, but so tiny as to be of no matter:


Is that sign slighly crooked?