Well I never imagined living in Ohio I would see the damage from hurricane winds like we did but the county I live in is in a state of emergency trees, power line and structual damage everywhere our school are going to be closed again tomarrow. Our power just came back on about 5pm after more than 24 hours. alot of people are still out of power. I spent all day cleaning up trees we lost 2 big ones and lots of branches what a mess. Well I no mine is nothing compared to alot of people I sure wish everyone the best.
I've got some family that lives not far from you in Lebanon
They were out of power for a couple of days, trees down etc....
Ike could have been much worse
most of the damage that I see is from flooding
imagine if that had hit as a Cat 4 or Cat 5
Being a resident of South Florida for the past 40+ years
One indicator of a storms intensity that we look for,
is how many leaves remain on the trees
After Hurricane Andrew the trees were stripped bare,
in the hardest hit areas the smallest remaining branches,
on 100 year old oak trees were about 8 inches in diameter.
Pine trees 24" in diameter were snapped like twigs 20 feet above the ground,
thousands of em
When the media hype and frenzy is over
It's gonna take many years for the damage to be repaired
Some folks will have flashbacks from something as simple as a thunderstorm
There are still 70+ days left in the 2008 Hurricane season
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