Hurricane Ike

After receiving several e-mails and hearing warnings about Hurricane Ike, I was surprised with this past weekends weather.  I am from Arizona where the weather is pretty much the same year round.  I have never experienced effects from a hurricane.  When the e-mails were warning us and the news was alerting us, I thought the weather this weekend would be unbearable.  I was pleasantly surprised that it only heavily rained on Saturday and by Sunday the sun was out.  I thought we were going to be stuck inside all weekend.  Is that normally how Dallas is affected by hurricanes?