Hurricane Ike comes to central OH

[NLOVNIT]

I hope you all made it through the winds on Sunday with little or no damage.

There is a lot of tree & structural damage around central OH. We were out of power from 3PM on Sunday to a bit past noon on Monday. Luckily, all we lost was 1 large limb on one tree, another small tree split in half & we ended up throwing out all perishable items from our fridge. Many folks in our area are still waiting on power to be restored. Our winds, although category 1 hurricane status, were only gusts & there was no rain. I can not imagine what sustained winds would've been like or to have the flooding that is happening in other parts of the country. Yes, we are still in clean up mode, but thankful that it was only some trees & food lost.

Lori-

[NLOVNIT]

I hope you all made it through the winds on Sunday with little or no damage.

There is a lot of tree & structural damage around central OH. We were out of power from 3PM on Sunday to a bit past noon on Monday. Luckily, all we lost was 1 large limb on one tree, another small tree split in half & we ended up throwing out all perishable items from our fridge. Many folks in our area are still waiting on power to be restored. Our winds, although category 1 hurricane status, were only gusts & there was no rain. I can not imagine what sustained winds would've been like or to have the flooding that is happening in other parts of the country. Yes, we are still in clean up mode, but thankful that it was only some trees & food lost.

Lori-

[ISLAPP]

Three 18" diameter 40' plus high pines came crashing down. One of em' caught the side and edge of the roof line of the house.
The motorhome sits on the other side of the house and is close to a really large oak tree. I had joked in the past that it might be nice for a storm to bring that tree down on the coach. But after the pines came down, I figured it would be my luck that just a branch or something would come down just enough to damage the motorhome and put it out of commission for the balance of the summer. So I pulled the coach out on the street until late in the night when the winds died down. Turned on the generator and TV and watched alittle of the Browns game until Pittsburgh scored and new it was time to go to bed! We had no power for about 4 hours.
Mike

[Joe-K]

I was a little slow in seeing this post.

Western PA also got hit pretty hard by Ike. Our power at home was going on and off pretty steadily Sunday evening but never stayed off for more than 30 seconds, but we were one of the lucky ones.

Beaver, Alleghany and Butler counties were all hti pretty hard by the storm. Quite a few of the back roads I usually drive on the way to work were closed Monday morning due to downed trees. Power was off in many communties for days. In Beaver county, the town my parents live in had no power for 3 days. Of course since the water treatment plant had no water, rationing was in effect.

Just a few miles from us, Shelly's sister had no power for 5 days, and in Slippery Rock (near the Grove City area) my niece's college apartment didn't get their power back until Sunday...a whole week after the storm.