Andy,

Some very good hints. My family and I were considering whether to ride Ike out in my kid's office building and I posed a bunch of questions to him based on what I've learned chasing storms as a newspaper photographer over the years.

To keep from wasting bandwidth, I'll refer you to what is normally my bicycling blog:

http://www.palmbeachbiketours.com/2008/09/04/storm-advice-hide-from-wind-run-from-water/

or http://tinyurl.com/5j6ss8 if that has a bad wrap.

I think this one is worth worrying about.