Well, I'm still here, and it looks like my internet seems to be back to normal (was temperamental for a while). I was lucky - the real nasty parts of the storm apparently went across south of where I am (The storm went roughly west to east), At least one major tornado was confirmed, but in a different part of the state, and flooding wasn't quite as much of a concern as I'm on the 5th floor of a 19-story high-rise building. Power stayed on thanks to generators in the building, although many surrounding areas were out for a while.
Looking at storm damage reports, there were some downed power lines and trees, and a nearby area had winds that were measured by authorities to have reached ~85 mph. (If my math is right that's around 130-140 kph metric - Or is it multiplied the other way?) Downtown, it apparently got up to ~65 to 70 mph in most areas.
The last time a major storm that was almost as bad as this went through the area, there was a tornado - less than a mile away that tore down a few trees.
I take these things seriously - I actually lived through and survived a hurricane a long time ago, down in a part of Texas. What was interesting was before the storm came, people had attitudes: "Oh, it won't be that bad, we've had bad weather before..." and "Yeah, yeah, bring it on..." type of mentalities. I thankfully had a parent back then that also took it seriously, reinforcing the windows and house, stocking up on supplies, shuttering the windows, etc. Everyone else was laughing at us for doing such things, but after the storm, surprise, surprise, many houses and structures in town were collapsed, half-swept away for some distance, ruined, etc. We were prepared, so we were OK.
The morning after (the hurricane, long ago) was "fun" - There was lawless chaos, including people down at a surviving gas station who were shooting at each other with shotguns over what was left of bags of ice and food there!
