Hi all,
More delays in getting pictures up. Hurricane Ike really rammed Ohio, as far as Ohio can get hit by hurricanes. Nothing compared to Texas; we are just inconvenienced and most of us are being very patient. A lot of AEP linepeople were sent to help down south, which slowed our recovery a bit, but we can well wait.
If you didn't hear, Ohio is under a state of emergency. We had hurricane force winds of 60 mph with gusts well into the 70's. I missed it all, as my Sunday plane back from Atlanta was delayed because of it. But when I finally made it back, the airport and a handful of other places were the only ones with power. My apartment and workplace just got power today, my parents still don't have it, as well as hundreds of thousands of others - some will be as long as Sunday or later to get power restored. Schools and businesses are just starting to get back working again.
But we're lucky, very few causalities, mostly just fallen trees and lost power. And as some have said, it's not boiling hot, dead winter, or flooding here, thank goodness. We're thinking of the less fortunate south of us.
Tags: Hurricane Ike Ohio Power Blackout
