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the captians wench

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We had some really high winds in what apears to be Ike latching onto a front creating an inland hurricane. I was one of the lucky ones who never lost power, but my McD's was with out power for 29 hours. I spent sunday, and monday cleaning the store, trying to locate our metal umbrella that was attached to the patio, taking our stock out of the store and putting it into the freezer truck in the lot, and hauling stock from other stores and putting it in the truck. When our power came back up, I helped load stock back into the store and get them ready to open before the maddness hit. After 12 hours of lifting, sorting, cleaning, and organizing. I just couldn't dream of staying to work.

As we expected, the manager there got slammed. We couldn't get ahold of a lot of crew, so she only opened the drive thru, but people are looking for anything right now. I wanted to be open yesterday, not to rake in the money, but because of how many people came by just looking for something.

What amazes me, is that I haven't heard reports of looting. Not here anyway. Closing that first night with no power scared me more because I was more afraid some one would take advanage of the dark.

Indiana and Kentucky got it bad too from what I heard on the radio. Last count, there were still hundreds of thousands with out power. We're not used to huricanes in these parts. So if you know some one in one of these areas, check in with them, or here.

Some phone lines are still down too, and a lot of cell phones aren't working or can't be charged. But once you can, check in and let every one know you're okay.
 
We lost power twice, actually blew out our surge protector. But we're here
 
i am about 4 counties east of Columbus; of which they recorded the Hurricane force winds of 75 mph at the airport.

We lost power 4 different times. The last time actually lasted about 9 hours. Trees down everywhere, including my giant oak tree. :(

But no permanent or severe damage, just a lot of cleanup. And school is still open, which a lot aren't; this week. Including Columbus City Schools. Their off for at least the whole week.

AEP says it could be up to a week or more before all of Columbus' power is back up and running, due to our AEP teams having went south to help the direct victims of Ike. But they were on their way back up Monday morning, driving tandem; (one drives, the other sleeps); to get here as fast as possible.

Locally, the most damage was a few trees down; and shingles off roofs.

Hope everyones ok.
 
I'm closer to cincy, and offical reports are 74mph winds here, but unofficially there are reports from local weather nuts that recorded 85mph winds.

Schools are out at least another day here, and they think they'll have everyone back by the weekend. I wish they would hurry.

My store did 11+k in sales today, on a normal tuesday we do about 4k so another 13+ hour day for wenchie. I'm exhausted.
 
Last night on the news, they said the Cleveland area still has about 20,000 without power and they probably wont have power until the weekend.
 
This morning, according to news report; Columbus still had over 100,000 without power.

And all the major school districts are still closed, and now starting to worry about the loss of their calamity days...lol.

We used to call em snow days, but i guess thats their new word. :rolleyes:

But crews reported in last night from other states; such as Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey. To help the area hopefully get back up and running quicker. AEP's local crews made it back this morning, and had been given a 12 hour sleep break; and then are to report in for duty.

So hopefully, Central Ohio will be back up to almost par by the weekend.

Glad everyones ok, so far. :kiss:
 
I am from Kentuckiana and we got hit pretty hard here for 1 hour we had 50 mph consistent winds with 75 mp gusts. Schools are out the whole week, some emergency buildings just got electricity back today. We had over 300,000 homes without power in my city alone and they are saying 10-14 days before all will be restored today the count is down to 175,000. I am one of the lucky ones and mine only blinked a few times. It is really odd to drive around town and see the national guard directing traffic at major intersections, black stop lights, large areas that are completly black and scary to see the huge trees that came down.
 
We are southwest of Cleveland. We had six inches of water in our basement from two days of rain. Everything was ruined. We are still waiting for the insurance adjuster to come out and see our damage. We were without electricity for one day. The winds were so strong they were bending our trees. Lots of branches down etc.

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