CNN may have heasded their article "Ike wears itself out beating up on Texas," but Ike didn't wear out nearly as soon as most hurricanes.

The city of Cinncinati OH (!!!) suffered power outages over this past weekend thanks to tropical-storm-strength winds brought by the "remnants" of Ike. There was comparable damage/trouble in Louisville, St. Louis, and all over the US.

One of my coworkers just told us about some kind of problems in CHICAGO. That's way up north and way inland, far beyond the usual range of hurricane damage.