Hurricane Ike - Pictures Added

[pixiedustforever]

Thanks for the update - keep us posted!



Marylee
Pixiedustforever

 

[pixie dust 112]

Glad you are ok Mark! Thanks so much for checking in with us! I hope that the weather in Texas remains calm and clear for all of your clean up efforts!

 

[Villainess]

Thanks for the update! Keep us posted when you can.

 

[Uncle Servo]

Thanks for the update! Keep us posted when you can.

I'll second that. Stay safe!

 

[crazydadguy]

I know how you feel man, we were without power at my house almost three weeks after Katrina. I had a friend that got power back after two weeks, and he loaned us his 5kw generator until our power came back. Now, I keep a small 1kw generator for emergencies. Its not much, but it will run the fridge/freezer and a fan. Hope things go well for you.

 

[jann1033]

Glad you made it through it all OK!

Times like this, it's nice to live in an area with pretty mild weather. No earthquakes, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, no tsunamis, no typhoons, no mudslides, no wildfires... just an ice storm every 20 years or so. Pretty boring, actually. Even if we get a nasty snow storm occasionally, it's unlikely to actually kill you like so many other natural disasters!

hehe i would have said the same till yesterday, ike's leftovers hit us lst night with up to 78mph winds so basically cat one with out the rain , we lost power at 7:00pm and now we have no power probably till next friday or sat..good thing my mother and daughter still do since well water means no electricity=not potty, shower or H2O of any kiind..we'd be pretty ripe by the weekend . the elcectic company sent a bunch of their people to help in the south..guess they need to call them back

 

[jann1033]

I'm anxious for an update from Mark, or anyone down there! We are about 45 southwest of Cleveland, Oh. Ike is visiting us now. Nothing even comparable to what TX had, obviously. But we still have alot of downed trees, branches. I even saw a silo on it's side on my way home. My backyard is absolutely littered with tree parts, and I had to chase my runaway grill down! DH is at the Browns/Steelers game tonight. Can't wait to see field goals and passes tonight
Seriously, I wish everyone in Ike's path safety and strength to get them through these rough times.

I'm about due east, slightly north of cleveland, almost to ashtabula county and it was awful
it must have been really spotty. before the rains came it was 80+ degrees and so windy the gusts were actually blowing my monitor around across the room from an open window on my road big trees like 18-24" in diameter were ripped into 2 and 3 pieces, broken off at the middles and all over the roads but my mother who lives about 15 mins from me never lost power and didn't even have branches down. a few yrs ago we had a f1 tornado come through and 2 or 3 trees were like that but this was more widespread. they said a bunch of schools are closed due to power outages and 300,00-500,00 with out power here....i've really never seen wind like that and it lasted for hrs, like 4pm -10pm then started again a little less strong about 2 am when it started raining. but at least the temp went down once it rained...so i'll be lugging all my freezer's contents over to my moms since we live in the rurals( only 14,000 powerless in my city) and our power will be the last to be restored

 

[dburg30]

Yea, a lot of central ohio has downed trees / power lines etc. They say up to a week for some folks to get power back. Hardly a drop of rain at all though, that was pretty wild, but we were on the 'right' side and with the other front around the winds just fed. I mean they were calling for a wind advisory, but I dont think anyone expected the winds we got. Especially when you figure we were at least a couple hundred miles from what looked like the edge of Ike..

 

[Groucho]

hehe i would have said the same till yesterday, ike's leftovers hit us lst night with up to 78mph winds so basically cat one with out the rain , we lost power at 7:00pm and now we have no power probably till next friday or sat..good thing my mother and daughter still do since well water means no electricity=not potty, shower or H2O of any kiind..we'd be pretty ripe by the weekend . the elcectic company sent a bunch of their people to help in the south..guess they need to call them back

We got a visit from remnants of Ike a couple nights ago... I couldn't fall asleep until after 2am, the winds were very strong and quite noisy coming around the in-window air conditioner (which doesn't seal very well.) I just couldn't get to sleep! Plus it meant that Saturday was cold, Sunday felt extremely hot, then Monday was cold again. Weird.

It was nothing compared to how Ike was down south, but then, I'm always tired after traveling a couple thousand miles, too.

Seriously though - hope you get your power back soon, Mark! I'm glad you seem to have come through mostly unscathed. Once you're back in action, we can give you a hard time about not going out in your van during it to take pictures.

 

[klmall]

WOW everyone! Sounds like Ike whipped you all around....

All this storm talk got me thinking about backups so I spent part of yesterday copying files to my backup drive.

Take care of yourselves everyone and let us know how you are doing when you can

 

[Quicklabs]

Just got our power back yesterday from Sunday. Lost the contents of our fridge and freezer. Never thought I'd have to worry about hurricanes in Ohio.
I suspect Suburbanmom is still in the dark ....

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Still no power. We expect it today or tomorrow. The weather after the storm has been great, so we aren't really having any problems. Everything is a mess with down trees all over the place. The roads are clear. The gas lines have gone down. More and more stores in the area have power and are open. School is closed at least until Monday. Our office is open but we are encouraging people to stay home until Monday.

 

[NostalgicDad]

Glad things are looking up for you, Mark. My company has an office on Research Forest Dr. in the Woodlands and their power was restored this morning around 9am.

I'm headed down to my dad's either this evening or in the morning to help him out with supplies, etc since they don't expect power for possibly another week based on his power provider's timetable. He's over near Dayton.

 

[bnorm27]

Glad to hear you are well Mark. Hope you get some power back on soon!

 

[pixie dust 112]

Still no power. We expect it today or tomorrow. The weather after the storm has been great, so we aren't really having any problems. Everything is a mess with down trees all over the place. The roads are clear. The gas lines have gone down. More and more stores in the area have power and are open. School is closed at least until Monday. Our office is open but we are encouraging people to stay home until Monday.

I just found out my friend's son works in The Woodlands (an engineering firm, I think) and that they had there power a couple of days ago at his office. I think they went back to work yesterday.

Glad all seems to be going well!

 

[Quicklabs]

Guess you'll be up in my neck of the woods. I'm in one of the south suburbs of Dayton. About 1/3 of the people in my office still don't have power.

Glad things are looking up for you, Mark. My company has an office on Research Forest Dr. in the Woodlands and their power was restored this morning around 9am.

I'm headed down to my dad's either this evening or in the morning to help him out with supplies, etc since they don't expect power for possibly another week based on his power provider's timetable. He's over near Dayton.

 

[NostalgicDad]

Guess you'll be up in my neck of the woods. I'm in one of the south suburbs of Dayton. About 1/3 of the people in my office still don't have power.

Well, actually about 1,000 miles to your south. Dayton, Tx to be specific. It's a small town on the east side of Houston.

 

[jann1033]

Just got our power back yesterday from Sunday. Lost the contents of our fridge and freezer. Never thought I'd have to worry about hurricanes in Ohio.
I suspect Suburbanmom is still in the dark ....

yeah "no hurricanes" was always my only "weather" reason to stay here we have ours back( thank you CEI workers!!!) but some are still out and they say not till Monday...i lugged all my food over to people who still had power so swhoo for that but our power came on the day after I did so i figure that is what did it, draggin hundreds of pounds of meat all over creation magically restores power

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Still no power. We were supposed to have it yesterday. Now they are saying it will be at least another week.

It's starting to get hot and we are running out of clean clothes. We're going to get a generator and a window AC.

The kids have missed 6 days of school and it is likely that they'll miss at least 5 more. We've cancelled our January WDW trip as we don't want them missing any more.

Work starts up Monday. I'm looking forward to getting back.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Got the generator. It's the loudest thing I've ever heard, but it gets the job done. Still no word on when we'll have power other than "after Thursday."

Here are some pictures from just after the storm.

Our tree against our neighbor's house:

Another view of our downed tree

The house diagonally across from us. He was on the roof during the latter part of the hurricane putting up the tarp. They have major water damage.

Next door to the house above. I'm not sure what punched that big notch in the roof. Rumor is that they have significant structural damage.

A neighbor down the street

A shot looking back down my street