It's hard to believe a hurricane making landfall in Texas can impact our lives here in Coshocton, Ohio, but it did. Hurricane Ike roared through Coshocton for about four hours yesterday evening with little to no rain but still packing a windy punch. In Coshocton County, more than 7,000 homes and businesses are without power. If you'd like to see pictures, click here.
We're fine at home, though about 1/4 of the city of Coshocton is without power. Trees are down, some businesses and homes are damaged, schools are closed. Many of the homes and businesses that do have power, don't have phones that work...
In an interesting complication based on a correct decision, most of the regional "contract" linemen held in reserve for such emergency situations in Ohio have been sent to Texas to help restore power down there. So estimates of a week or more are being given for most local power outages and the regular linemen are out there working hard without back-up.
MMS is closed as well as there's no power up at the airport. It's amazing how life changes when the electricity stops...
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We got our power back around an hour ago.
I heart electricity!
Wow! Crazy that you guys all the way up in Ohio got weather from Hurricane Ike, but yet we haven't gotten "ANYTHING" from it. Go figure. Glad you guys have power. Hope all is well :)
Hello Leakeys,
Yes, it was rather wild. Several MMS families are still without power. FBC is still without power. MMS is still down today too. Karen and I are well, doing fine, and taking advantage of the time. It looks like we're meeting with Ron Wayner this afternoon. Will blog about that this evening.
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