Ike Damage

This is some of the tree damage just within blocks of our house...

Just across the street
Woodbine
Woodbine
On our street
Wiswell

Hurrican Ike Hits Cincinnati

I can't believe that Hurricane IKE hit the midwest. Even though the worst of the winds were yesterday I think today was worse. We were very lucky to get our power back last night.

• The clean up is massive from the 80 mph winds we had. We were find and didn't really have any damage to our house. Matt spent hours today (on his day off) helping our neighbor with their yard.
• Zoe's school was closed because they still don't have power.
• My offices, which are down the street from the hospital, was only on emergency power and therefore we had no power. I had meetings and went home about noon to work from my computer.
• The gas stations are crazy. The ones that have power and can pump only have premium left. There are massive lines. Thank goodness we heard that gas prices might jump and filled up our vehicles on Friday and Matt even filled up 6 gas cans. We are good to go for awhile.
• The grocery stores are closed! No power still. Even the one right around the corner from us and we have power.

Unfortunately we can't blame this freak storm for the Benglas loss yesterday. We had friends at the game and they didn't even realize what was going on. The dome of the stadium shielded them from the winds.