Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Jun 30, 2012 22:02:29 GMT -5
The storm was the weirdest thing. I was coming out of the pharmacy and the back part of the lot was wet and I got to the van and saw it coming in...in sheets. I could countdown to the instant we got blown around and wet. Instantaneously everything changed. A trashcan hit my van and branches were going down all over. So we pulled into Kroger's and ran in to get out of the storm. They put us in the backroom because electric went out as soon as the storm hit.
Worst part was, when they let us go I realized I didn't have enough gas to get home! I had to wait around til the electric came on - luckily a cop saw us (and a few others) parked by the pumps after a while and told us there was one station in town that was open and luckily I had enough gas to get there!
By the time I got back home, the neighborhood was cleaning up and we got the stuff out of our back yard. Lots of debris all over. We still have some small branches to clean up and have a good size pile in front of the house.
Local newspaper photos - www.dailystandard.com/albums/album_view.php?album_id=1803
Satellite of power outage - cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~jordang/VIIRS_DNB__REF_comp.gif
we are west central Ohio - near the indiana border about half way up (near the bottom of the dark area during the blackout)
At one point they said that 2/3 of the state had lost power at one point or another. One of my friends won't get there's on til Monday and my nephew says his might be out til July 7th!
Worst part was, when they let us go I realized I didn't have enough gas to get home! I had to wait around til the electric came on - luckily a cop saw us (and a few others) parked by the pumps after a while and told us there was one station in town that was open and luckily I had enough gas to get there!
By the time I got back home, the neighborhood was cleaning up and we got the stuff out of our back yard. Lots of debris all over. We still have some small branches to clean up and have a good size pile in front of the house.
Local newspaper photos - www.dailystandard.com/albums/album_view.php?album_id=1803
Satellite of power outage - cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~jordang/VIIRS_DNB__REF_comp.gif
we are west central Ohio - near the indiana border about half way up (near the bottom of the dark area during the blackout)
At one point they said that 2/3 of the state had lost power at one point or another. One of my friends won't get there's on til Monday and my nephew says his might be out til July 7th!
