Ike in Cincinnati
By kenzie45230
@kenzie45230 (3560)
United States
September 18, 2008 12:59pm CST
I haven't been online at all since Sunday, when our power went off. I was actually chatting with someone across the country who said she was concerned about me because the storm was heading to Ohio Valley. I said I'd be okay. Then the power went off and it's been off ever since. It looks like our neighborhood will be among the last to be restored.
But it could have been much worse. Besides the 850,000 homes orignially without power, that is. If there had also been rain to go with the winds, we could have had much more damage.
Perhaps I look at things differently because once after a hurricane in Houston, I went without power for 3 weeks. I doubt this will take that long. I hope.
So how about you?
Were you affected by Hurricane Ike? Or Tropical Storm Ike?
Or have you lived through other hurricanes/storms?
I'm at the library and cannot respond again until I get power. But I hope you'll comment. Please?
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5 responses
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
19 Sep 08
My sister lives on Galveston Bay, she just got the first look at her home since Ike hit. By some miracle she was lucky, her home is still standing, no broken windows, some minimal damage. Compared to her neighbors who were going through piles of rubble to see if they could find any of their belongings. Whole houses in her neighborhood, next door and across the street, gone. Her second vehicle is sitting in the back bay along with their trailer with a harley in it. She figures it will be a couple of months before they can actually go back home to stay. They had 17' water surge where she lives. She said going back yesterday was so surreal, it was like driving through a war zone. I have been through a couple of hurricanes, living on the Texas coast, but nothing anywhere near the devastation of Ike.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I only got my power on yesterday and I still have not seen any pictures of what's happened in Texas. I'll have to go searching today.
I used to live about 40 miles away from Galveston and about 60 miles from Houston. Visited both on a regular basis. I'm glad your sister got off fairly easy. And I'm keeping everyone who was touched by this in my prayers.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
20 Sep 08
It was pretty bad. I finally got to see some pictures.
@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I live in southern Indiana and I too was affected by this storm. I praise God that we didn't have rains with this hurrican 1 wind storm. I was without electric for about 8 hours on Sunday when the electric came back on until about Thursday evening when they turned our electric back off due to the fact that I had a live power line down in my back yard. I had to get an electrician to fix the place that the electric hooks up to the house before they would turn it back on. I finally got electric back Saturday night about 11pm. There are still some here in Southern Indiana and Louisville, Ky that are still without power. I was just thankful that I still had hot water since I have a gas hot water heater.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
22 Sep 08
We were definitely spared by not having rain to go along with these winds.
@littleone3 (2063)
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18 Sep 08
I hope you get you power back soon.
We are lucky here in the UK we do not often get storms.
The worst one i went through was when i was 15. A few people were killed because of falling trees and there was alot of damage done but it was nowhere as bad as you get it.
The funny thing was that a pyshic had phoned a Tv Station the night before the storm and told the weatherman there was going to be a hurricane the next morning. The weather man completely dismissed her as a hoax. But was eating his words the next day when it became clear that she had been right. He has never lived that down.
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I'm hoping that there have not been lots of deaths with Hurricane/Tropical storm Ike. Not having power means that I couldn't check the news. Oh sure, we had a battery operated radio, at least after the 2nd day when we could find batteries.. But we didn't keep it going all the time and couldn't find much news.
It's so strange for this to happen in Ohio. I lived in Florida and Texas and know what storms are like there. Never expected this.
I do finally have power - after being without for 100 hours. There was just a news conference with the power company and the city mayor. Turns out that 90% of the customers were without power. That's amazing. Still over 100,000 without power.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I'm south of you in Chillicothe and we lost power too. It was totally unexpected since all they said was 'wind advisory' and I didn't think anything of it. I'm actually on the Chillicothe/Frankfort line and I don't think the wind was bad here at all, but I guess it was worse in town and it was enough to knock out major power lines that affected us all.
Our power went out approximately 1:30 Sun afternoon and we got it back Tues morning, so we didn't have it nearly as bad as most. I know some areas in town were without longer than that, but I went to town yesterday and everything was business as usual.
Still today there are many without, and I can't even imagine going that long. I guess they're just not ready for this sort of thing here in Ohio.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I'm glad things weren't too bad for you. Us either, really. It cost us $300 to put a weather head back on the side of the house - that holds our power line. The line never totally disconnected, but it was hanging down about 3 feet off the ground. Not a safe situation with kids around. Plus we lost food, of course. But our insurance deductable is $500 and although we could have more than that with the food, I didn't take pictures of what I threw away. Grrr.
@stylioJ (403)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Yeah, I never expected a hurricane to affect us in Cincinnati. I'm up in Mount Adams. We didn't lose power at my house, but one of my friends not far away was still without power until Thursday morning. Hope everything is going well for you now. I definitely feel lucky that the damage wasn't worse and that I didn't have to worry about much.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
22 Sep 08
We got our power restored on Thursday about 5 p.m. But there were still 6 house on our street without electric. Duke had promised that 85% of the homes would have power by Sunday night. Last night around 5 p.m. a bunch of trucks from Pike Power (in North Carolina) finally showed up to see about those 6 homes. Then at 8 a.m. there were 5 huge Pike trucks and smaller ones here - all because of those 6 homes still without power. The noon news said that there were still 12,000 customers without power. Those 6 on my street are some of those. It seems that when they tried reconnecting power here right after the storm, that a transformer blew. I'm not sure why they can't get it back up and running again. Sure seems like a lot of manpower for 6 houses.
