Jim Cantore... You WIN!

I would like to apologize to the entire state of Ohio for the hurricane forced winds we had for about 5 hours on Sunday afternoon and evening. Yes, I thought mocking the weather channel and the amateur hurricane coverage down in Texas was hilarious...however, the force has spoken and apparantly the hurricane gods did not find it funny one bit. On Sunday, Beavercreek, OH was the recepient of a front coming in from Chicago and the remains of Hurricane Ike. We had up to gusts of 75mph and over 2 million people without power throughout the state. 200,000 people in the Dayton area, including Adam and I, we lost power Sunday and still are awaiting its return. The DP and L power co. says it could be till the weekend before all power is restored... lets hope its tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest for us, or I might loose my mind and all the food in our house. Because Beavercreek never sees winds of this strength, more damage was done than expected. The trees in the area are so mature and heavy that the whipping winds just snapped them like toothpicks. Several were uprooted and luckily only minor damage happened to many of the homes, just a lot of clean up to do. Adam had to work yesterday, so I spent about 4 hours in the yard and around the house picking up debri, branches, sticks and raking up the rest so our yard no longer looked like a war zone. Chainsaws and mulchers have taken the place of birds chirping and dogs barking in our neighborhood. But with all that said, 2 streets away they have power and never lost it so hopefully ours isnt too far off.

As for now, I am at work catching up after yesterday with no power to the office and then back to the home front to hang out with the dogs. I must say that the weather looks great for clean up and luckily no AC or heat is needed at this point.