The effects of hurricane Ike in NE Ohio

[74duster318]

The power here only got knocked off and on a bunch of times sunday night, but the other part of town got it worse. And many parts of Columbus had outages, and are still without power. Work on the other hand had power, but not much of it. Something about being on 3 phase power, but only one is on... Made for a dim few days of work. It was as if we were running off of AA batteries.

I was amazed at how many car alarms were going off during the wind. And it was pretty entertaining to sit outside after work and watch the shingles fly...
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[Dangeranger3]

A small river I drive over for the commute (Makinaw River) is at least 8ft up. And it is usually a small river. It was only a couple fee under the bridge. Other than the tons of rain, not a big affect around here.

 

[Jspafford]

A small river I drive over for the commute (Makinaw River) is at least 8ft up. And it is usually a small river. It was only a couple fee under the bridge. Other than the tons of rain, not a big affect around here.

We got absolutly no rain out of the whole mess. We had 75+ MPH Sustained winds for 3-4 hours but not a drop of rain.

It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

 

[Simple_serf]

We got hit with the 60-70 MPH winds...no rain. I watched one of my maples fold itself in half, but it didn't break. We lost power and phone/internet. Power was back up within an hr or two (they tied power in from another road) but the whole hill gets phone/interest from one cable, and a 110 year old maple fell on that. Didn't get that back for until 5 the next day.

Battery bank from the solar took care of the power (my big genset is out of commission right now), and the 2 meter radio took care of phone calls (Local repeater has Autopatch).

 

[kunar]

wow, i didnt realize it was that bad. i live just west of toledo (nw ohio) and we havent had any rain since sunday. it rained all weekend, but not at all since. and we didnt have any wind gusts or anything at all to speak of. i heard that south and west of us got it a little better but i didnt know it was that bad...

 

[JohnnyO]

We got absolutly no rain out of the whole mess. We had 75+ MPH Sustained winds for 3-4 hours but not a drop of rain.

It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

Same here in western PA. A LOT of trees down and 100,000 or so people without electricity.
My take is that we get severe weather here so rarely that the trees get a chance to grow very large. Then when really bad stuff hits it causes more damage.
We're 1500 miles down the road from Texas and still get 70-80 mph winds from Ike? Dayum.

 

[Legend]

Transfer Switch

I just got power back. It went off about noon Sunday. I have had extension cords running all through the house going to my generator. Maybe it's time for a transfer switch.

My brother took a tree through his roof.

We have North Carolina line crews on every county road around here.

I made a cable with a 220v male connector to the generator on one end and a 220v male connector to match the clothes dryer outlet. I just flip the main breaker on the house, unplug the dryer and plug in the generator. Not as nice as a transfer switch, but much cheaper.

 

[Ozwynn]

all we got was rain in SW Michigan, but it rained from saturday to tuesday which is odd for around here. it is rare for it to rain all day let alone for days on end. no flooding though, no high winds....... infact come to think of it ......... in the 18 months we have lived in this house the power has been off 3 times. 2 times for a minute or less and once for 4 hours. I feel blessed because come to think of another thing ......... our DSL has only been out twice as well.

 

[woodyedmiston]

Well God bless all of you who work for anything that is related to the Hurricane effort. I had no idea folks like Oakes and Spafford got hit that hard. Sorry to hear it. My work and home are about 3.5 hrs from the coast and the eye went right over us. It was a tropical storm by that time and we just lost power. It's amazing that far north you still got the same effect.

I ferried two large generators to the north Houston area Monday. From anywhere in Houston to 125 north you couldn't buy gas, food or water. In one line, just north of Houston a 20 mile long stretch was bumper-to-bumper. There were by my count over a hundred Power Company bucket trucks from all over the North headed that way. If one of your friends or family was driving one of those trucks, we thank them. I represent 600 famlies who have medically fragile and orphaned children in their care.

 

[grey ghost]

i hate to post the worthless without pictures but did anyone get any pictures of the damage in their area that could share with us? my step dad keeps complaining on how we don't have the phone and keeps forgetting how peicefull it has been all week so far without the damn thing

thanks to all that can post pics , grey ghost

 

[shadetree]

Ditto on what Woody said for all the help. There are out of state trucks everywhere here. I saw one group of about 25 trucks from Va.

I'm 30 miles north of Houston. My property damage was minimal. Three large trees down, but I live in the midst of very tall pines, so I usually don't get much wind damage. However, there are so many others who are not as fortunate. They are still not allowing anyone to go back into Galveston. They say another week. Curfews all over the place, usually dusk to dawn, including where I live. Martial law in a couple places.

The first couple of days were rough, no gas, no water, no ice. Stations couldn't pump. If you didn't stock up before the storm, you were out of luck. I did. I've done this little dance a couple of times before. There was plenty of warning, and those that didn't heed the message get no sympathy from me.

FEMA and the state did good. Truck loads of water, ice, and MRE's. They learned from Rita, and evacuated those most in danger, and told the rest of us to "hunker down," and ride it out. Worked like a charm.

Some of the towns are getting power restored, but I live outside town. No power, and like most areas, power lines down, broken poles, trees on top of houses and in houses, houses off foundations, roofs gone, some trailer home simply vanished. I'm running off a generator and looks like it will be there a while. The word is another week or longer without power.

Luckily, in the sub-division where I live we are have a private water system, and the powers that be had enough brains to install a diesel generator, so we have water, dribbles sometimes, and not enough to wash your car, but we can get a bath, have water for cooking, and doing minimal clean-up.

I bought generator gas today, $3.66. shady

 

[skippy]

Glad you're ok shady.Btdt with opal,trees down and no power(no generator)not much fun.Again,good to see you back!

 

[shadetree]

Glad you're ok shady.Btdt with opal,trees down and no power(no generator)not much fun.Again,good to see you back!

Thanks. Appreciate the concern.shady

 

[ZMan]

ugh ya. I drove down to columbus for a Motorhead Concert at the Newport music club Sunday..frickin power was out so they cancelled it after we stood in line for 3 hours HOPING it would come back on. Power at my house was out for 24 hours also.

 

[Jspafford]

http://10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2008/09/16/slideshow_storm_damage.html