Samen Lori's Life: One Year Ago Today....

Here are some facts about the blackout that affected most all of Ohio and into Kentucky:

Hurricane Ike blew in for an awful visit with up to 70 MPH winds.
Sunday Sept. 14 at 2:00 our power went out.
I had to mash our mashed potatoes with a spatula, yes, they were lumpy.
Our upstairs shudder busted in half.
We were w/o electric for 89 hrs. We have gas water heater, but electric stove.

over 1 million outages, the electric company we use had over 700,000 out.
84 out of 87 counties affected.
due to no power, there was a gas shortage because it wasn't able to be pumped out of tank.
Duke Energy had workers in Texas and had to call them home to help in this mess.
They (Duke Energy) went from 12,000 workers to 16,050 to fix this outage.
Electric company workers worked 16 hr. shifts.
The wind blew my 79 year old dad over on the road. He was a little scratched up, but fine.
The mums Sam and Blake planted on Saturday (the day before) BLEW out of the ground.

Some people were running extension cords across the street to feed off others generators to keep their food frozen.
Went to bed by 9 p.m. because nothing to do. Could be a baby boom in 9 months.(time will tell)
Level 3 on Sunday and Monday morning that means ONLY essential personnel on road.
Dad and Sue left for Oklahoma anyway on Monday morning.
No ice available for miles. Matthew 25 ministries were giving ice away on Tuesday along with bottled water.
The weather was perfect: no rain, temps below 83, and not too cold.
One week later the weather is (was) still co-operating w/ no rain and pleasant temps.
One week later, Sunday evening they still had 700 w/o power.
Now for some pictures, I didn't go picture hunting, I thought that was rude, due to the fact that some had trees in their roofs and cars smashed. So this is just our property:

This is my dad's arm and now he is forever known to his great-grandson as "grandpa, the one that got blown over by the wind" (he has 5 grandpa's so it could be confusing to him).