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January 1, 2009
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On tails of Ike
September 14, 2008
Living in Ohio I really didn’t think I’d have to worry about hurricanes… I did hear on the weather that they said it might get windy when the remnants of hurricane Ike passed by -and for once at least, I think they were right.
We were pounded with strong wind all afternoon today stripping branches from the trees and knocking out power to… well my apartment and the streetlight down the road at least. Gusts over 66 mph were recorded at the Columbus airport and other places say more -let me tell you it they weren’t kidding when they said windy.
The city looks like it just had a decent size ice storm blow through… only it wasn’t wet or cold. Branches are laying everywhere and there is some damage to buildings. With no power in the apartment I decided to take a little hike down the road to experience the blow. It was a little humorous watching the porta-jons being pushed all over the parking lot like a puck on an air-hockey table. I doubt the guy with the tree on his car is getting quite so much enjoyment out of it; neither is the maintenance guy when he shows up in the morning.
**I’m back now. I was in the middle of writing this post and then it started getting dark and I started getting hungry so I thought I would go get something to eat -big mistake. Everyone else also had the same idea about then as well. There are some places with power… but they are scattered about randomly and the restaurants that are open have lines like you wouldn’t believe. I just looked it up online; there are 236,000 + people without power… in this county!
I’m writing this post on my laptop with my big UPS keeping my router and cable modem alive -nothing like technology when you need it… sure wish I had a candle right now…
I’ve been planning for weeks what I have to do tomorrow… it’s the last final piece of field data for the season. I have to go out to my fragile dead roost trees and… collect vegetation data…! Maybe there’s something left -that’s research.
[Update 9-22-08: The aftermath of Ike and the millions that lost power because of the storm is probably old news now but I thought I would put this post up anyway. Originally it was cued to go up a week ago from my laptop with the power out... but I had issue with the image files and wasn't able to get it up until today. I hope someone enjoys it anyway.]
