Everything's pretty good over here (house and town). Turns out my calculations and such I mentioned earlier were pretty darn consistent, according to the mess I had to clean up around the house and yard. House took minimal damage (basically the vinyl siding we had served as protective armor for the house, and a great deal of it got torn off), no flooding, surges apparently didn't even make it past the house closer to the beach than ours, and all the windows are intact. Exactly as calculated; well, more or less.
Had the hurricane maintained it's original course, we'd be far worse off (becoming a ground-zero location instead), of course. But thank goodness we dodged a cannonball there. Went about a day or so (slightly longer than a day since it came back a couple hours ago (I think around 9-ish)) sans power and internet. Had a generator keep us going for the time being at minimal operation, refreshing the house and such, and keeping our food and such from going rotten. Now I'm just spending what remains of my unofficial days off from work (Hurricane Party Vacation) cleaning up the place, and have just now re-set my computer setup and such.
It's nice to keep tabs on a bigger screen again. Nice to see everyone else has come off pretty well, as well.
EDIT:
I may have been on the news, since I saw at least 2 news choppers fly over my house (NBC and Channel 9, I think), and hold still for a bit; probably giving everyone else watching a good look at the mess. If you saw a pink house that was once white on the viewscreen, I may have waved at the camera either time.
EDIT EDIT:
Got a bit more yard cleaning done (getting it ready for pickup). Definitely got my work cut out for me here. Much more crap lying about the place than I thought.