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This is the first time anything like this has ever happened in Ohio. Usually a hurricane's remnants are non-existent or nearly non-existent by the time they get this far north. But I guess Ike was big enough. Its remnants coming from the south collided with a cool-front coming in from the north, on Sunday, a beautiful, sunny day - so the sun only heated up the sky and air. What resulted was what some are calling a 'wind storm', what some are calling a 'category 1 hurricane'. A dry hurricane if you will. There was some light rain but not a lot at all. It was the wind. We had 70-80mph gusts from 1PM to 6PM on Sunday afternoon. You could hear the howling. All with the sun out.
The result: Tree branches, whole trees, down everywhere you go - luckily none of our trees were damaged. Power lines down all over the place - 300,000 without power in our region, over 2,000,000 in the whole state. Most(but not all) traffic lights were out. We haven't had electricity since 2PM Sunday afternoon(don't know if you noticed I haven't posted here since Sunday morning - this is why). We don't know if it's going to come back today, tomorrow, or later in the week/weekend. DP&L(our electricity provider) says this is the biggest, most wide-spread power-outage problem they've seen in 35 years, maybe ever in Ohio.
We've been living by candlelight after 8PM on Sunday and last night, and will do again tonight(I don't think we're getting power back today). Stuff is going bad in the fridge. I started doing a jigsaw puzzle yesterday to pass the time. There's nothing to do when it gets dark - you can't even read or anything. Just putting together small meals is difficult. The stove has to be lit with a match, the microwave isn't usable at all, etc.
So, I'm on my college campus right now(one of the few schools around that didn't close due to no power), with my laptop(which I'm typing on), IPod, and phone plugged in the wall charging(computer has been dead and IPod has been almost dead since Sunday night(because I used them, there was nothing else to do), and my phone has been dead since last night. All I could do last night was listen via a battery-powered radio to a local radio station's emergency coverage of the aftermath.
This is one of the more unique situations I've ever been in. And it's probably child's play compared to what they're dealing with in Galveston and Houston right now.
I didn't see anything about this posted anywhere here, so I thought I'd post about it. I don't think we have too many other Ohioans here...though I think Indra is from Ohio, maybe Utoo(not sure about that)...can't think of anymore right now.
Depending on when our power comes back, I may not post again until I'm on campus again on Thursday.
The result: Tree branches, whole trees, down everywhere you go - luckily none of our trees were damaged. Power lines down all over the place - 300,000 without power in our region, over 2,000,000 in the whole state. Most(but not all) traffic lights were out. We haven't had electricity since 2PM Sunday afternoon(don't know if you noticed I haven't posted here since Sunday morning - this is why). We don't know if it's going to come back today, tomorrow, or later in the week/weekend. DP&L(our electricity provider) says this is the biggest, most wide-spread power-outage problem they've seen in 35 years, maybe ever in Ohio.
We've been living by candlelight after 8PM on Sunday and last night, and will do again tonight(I don't think we're getting power back today). Stuff is going bad in the fridge. I started doing a jigsaw puzzle yesterday to pass the time. There's nothing to do when it gets dark - you can't even read or anything. Just putting together small meals is difficult. The stove has to be lit with a match, the microwave isn't usable at all, etc.
So, I'm on my college campus right now(one of the few schools around that didn't close due to no power), with my laptop(which I'm typing on), IPod, and phone plugged in the wall charging(computer has been dead and IPod has been almost dead since Sunday night(because I used them, there was nothing else to do), and my phone has been dead since last night. All I could do last night was listen via a battery-powered radio to a local radio station's emergency coverage of the aftermath.
This is one of the more unique situations I've ever been in. And it's probably child's play compared to what they're dealing with in Galveston and Houston right now.
I didn't see anything about this posted anywhere here, so I thought I'd post about it. I don't think we have too many other Ohioans here...though I think Indra is from Ohio, maybe Utoo(not sure about that)...can't think of anymore right now.
Depending on when our power comes back, I may not post again until I'm on campus again on Thursday.