Last Sunday we had a visit from Hurricane Ike around here. 75 mph sustained winds for several hours. Thousands of trees down all around town and 400,000 without electricity for 48 hours. Roofs and homes are damaged everywhere, on every block. Today is the 3rd day of no school because 48 schools here in Columbus are still without power as is one of the bus compounds. All our emergency electrical crews are in Texas; things are moving very slowly. A small amount of neighborhoods got power back last night and hopefully more will come on today. We need to get these children back to school and our fridges restocked. As of yesterday, ours was cleaned out. I had to drive 20 miles to find ice and fuel but brought back a whole van load of coolers and ice bags as there was none to be had. The positives are that the weather is cool enough to leave windows open and there is no need for a/c as well as the fact that families are reconnecting with no electronic devices. We've bbq'd with the neighbors twice this week as we're all cooking the contents of our freezers. It's kinda dangerous to have our children playing too far away because there are downed lines and huge trees/branches everywhere. We are in great shape compared to Texas so I hate to complain but it's possibly going to be next week before we get back to school and we'll have no 'snow days' left so we'll be tacking them on the end of the school year in June! Bah!
I didn't have any structural damage to my house, but my brother did. I never though I'd see hurricane force winds in Kentucky!
