Hurricane Ike in Ohio?

Last Sunday started out to be a nice, warm sunny day. There was a wind advisory out, but that's not unusual around here, especially after a hurricane from the south. Later that afternoon the wind really picked up. I mean really picked up. As in trees, awnings, patio furniture and anything that wasn't literally nailed down. Later I found out we had wind gusts up to 70-78 mph. in surrounding areas.

Earlier that day I put a roast in the crock pot and decided to take a little cat-nap. Not long after I laid down, I woke up to the sound of what I thought was rain pelting against the window. I got up, looked outside and this is what I saw.

This is our neighbors house across the street. Thank God it didn't fall on her house. When that happened everyone came out of their houses to check things out. Then we heard the sirens and soon the ambulance
arrived on our street. It passed by us to the other end of the street and this is what was going on there.

If you look past the truck, you can barely see the ambulance.

What happened here, a woman was getting a tree limb out of the road when another one fell on her. Later we found out that she suffered a broken leg or ankle.

In the meantime, we were out in the neighborhood walking around looking at all the damage. I might add that it wasn't a smart thing to do because the wind was blowing so hard that at times it was almost knocking us off our feet. Like the weather guys and gals reporting in hurricanes.

We lost power for about 2 hours. We were lucky. By Sunday evening more than 200,000 homes and businesses in the Miami Valley were without power. Traffic signals have been out for days,causing many accidents. As of this posting the number of outages are down to 60,000. This as been one Dayton, Ohio's worst natural disasters in many years. Crews have been called back from Galveston, Texas and neighboring states have sent crews to our state to help restore power. One of the main problems of restoring the power is, trees have fallen and tangled throughout the power lines. They have to remove the tree debris before they can repair the electrical lines. They're slowly gettin er done.

What disappoints me is, there hasn't been any national news coverage of this that I know of. I guess political news is more important than all of the people who are suffering from Hurricane Ike's wrath.Thankfully the temperatures here have been comfortable. It would've been awful if there had been a heat wave or freezing rain and snow.
The pictures I posted are nothing compared to some of the damages that are in other parts of town.

This is my nephew's house. At least it was a small tree.

One block over from us.

Clean up begins on our street.

Oh, by the way. The roast I had in the crock pot was still cooking even though our power was out. Mike was worried that he wouldn't have any supper that night but that's whole other story right there. Anyhow the roast was very good and Mike went to sleep with a full belly.