Inland Hurricane

mark.r · Sep 21, 2008

I was at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend for an event and it rained like cats and dogs Friday, was beautiful Saturday and well Sunday . . .

Terrible way to find your $22,000 Ducati Tri-color. The ran two races Sunday (both were red flagged). Canceled third race. On the way back home to VA were passed through parts of Ohio and damaged did no look bad but power was out. One of the guys with us was from Cinci and his services were out until Tues. night.

Inspector507 · Sep 21, 2008

Latest update was there are still 19,000 customers out just in Franklin County, OH alone.

LMTC · Sep 21, 2008

Last numeric update I saw was yesterday from Duke alone in SW Ohio, 85,000. Most of that is the SW corner of the state, probably some in to Adams and Brown counties.

Flatheadyoungin · Sep 21, 2008

That's a cool photo.........glad it didn't hit the house!

I love trees but I sure don't want them to land on my house........I guess it's a chance you have to take, huh?

nate_m said:
Our area got hit pretty hard also. Luckily the damage to our property was very minimal in contrast to a lot of folks around us. We had power back on at our home by the next day.

Attached is a pic of an oak that came down in our back yard. Luckily the wind was blowing from the south and it fell away from the house. I actually watched it fall. Amazing how small and powerless you feel to see something like a 75' tall oak fall without any help from a chainsaw.

I was off work for two days because my company had no power. My wife's company was running off a generator all week, still no power by Friday afternoon.

But like the OP said, really weird event with no warning whatsoever.

If there is a silver lining... we were able to collect most of our firewood for next year. I estimate 3 ~ 4 cords from our yard and neighbors.

jinman · Sep 22, 2008

LMTC said:
Last numeric update I saw was yesterday from Duke alone in SW Ohio, 85,000. Most of that is the SW corner of the state, probably some in to Adams and Brown counties.

Wayne, has your governor requested disaster services? I know I heard about your area getting beat up badly. Last week when I donated to the Red Cross, I specifically designated south Texas and the Midwest to receive a share. We have relatives all over that area and they all have been affected by this storm. I cannot imagine why you have not received more aid. Perhaps the utter devastation of Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula have grabbed everyone's attention. It's no less important that your emergency needs are also met.

dmccarty · Sep 22, 2008

LMTC,

I have noticed the lack of coverage regarding Ike both in Texas as well in the Ohio river area. The coverage is buried even though millions of people are without power. The last number I saw was 2.6 million lost power. The story was from the end of last week and it said 900,000 had power restored.

Very little coverage on the news sites I visit. If there is coverage you have to dig for it.

Good Luck,
Dan