Hurricane???

[irishseashell]

Wanted to see if the Hurricane affected anyone here and if so is everyone okay!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just wanted to check in and make sure everything is okay with everybody!

I don't live in TX or anywhere close to the hurricane,but I know alot of OH went without power for a while...We just got our back this morning.So from Sunday at about 1:30pm Until Today at 7:19am we did without power.
Lucky for us we had plenty of food and we didn't loss water(or hot water).We did loss everything in the upstairs side by side fridge and 1 of our freezers full of food,but our huge freezer was full of food and everything inside stayed fine(had a genny started yesterday my cousin gave it to us after there power came back on) so that saved our big freezer.As for everything else we had lots of flashlights and batteries and a grill full of gas.Still was scary a bit.Mostly because none was expecting this to be that bad at all.Was very eerie to go outside at night and see NO LIGHTS At ALL.At least on of those nights was the full moon so we did have that light ;D

The whole time though I just keep saying could have been worse and if we would have been in TX or areas affected by the hurricane it is way worse than what happened here...had a lady tell my yesterday I had a great attitude for someone without power for 4 days(did alot of praying and being thankful for what we did have).The wind scared the crap out of my 2 Siberians and it freak my Luni boy so bad he had trouble going pee for a little while.No problem though(he was rescued from an abusive place so sometime he still gets real scared he is sticking to me like glue that is why I love him)!


Just wanted everyone to know I was thinking about this and that I have been praying over it.

Send some prayers this way too,I still know alot of people without power here.

[mrs"e"]

I'm so sorry! Yes, unfortunately, other forum members have been affected. (Check out the "How's the Weather" thread.)
We have signs here in Corpus saying, "Don't travel to Houston or Galveston. Hurricane Ike damage." They still can't go back to their homes.
I feel so bad for all of you affected by Ike the Jerk.
Please keep us updated!

[LPS NANA]

I'm so glad you got your power back on.

We were without power here in Columbus until 9 p.m. last night. Ours went out at 4:30 Sunday evening.

We lost almost everything in our fridge in the house. We did manage to save my BF's deer meat from the big freezer in the garage by taking it to a friends house. Now that I have power back on my goal today is to clean out our fridge. We threw out some of it already but since it is empty I am going to be giving it a good cleaning

We had no clue that it would be this bad. I heard on the news a couple days ago that the reason it hit so hard was because a cold front also collided with the remnants of Hurricane Ike.

I was at work during all of it. I work in a 5 story building on the 3rd floor. At first I thought it was my imagination but after the 8th time I know it wasn't. I was sitting in my chair and felt the floor shaking under me. It was pretty freaky.
In the meantime all hell broke loose. We lost power at work of course in the building. I work in the computer room so we were running on UPS (uninterrupted power supply). So everything in the computer room stays up and running. The building was running on generator power. So we went 3 hours like this. At 7:10 the power came back on but for only 20 minutes and then it flickered and went right back off again. After it came on and off again we run big air conditioning units in our computer room and they just shut down out of the blue. Immediately it became very warm in the room with all the equipment still powered up. So thats when the hell began.

The computer system that I am responsible for is the system that contains ALL information for OHIO Driver's License and Vehicle Registration information so you can imagine the importance of this being up and running at all times. So once we lost the air conditioners I started making the phone calls I needed to make. Then about 10 minutes later all power failed in the computer room. The disk drive units took a hard crash which is not a good thing at all. So I had one of the system guys come in and get irrate with me that I should have notified someone. I told him I sent out the power pages and that is all I'm instructed to do then it's up to those people to come in and assess the situation. Long story short I was told by my manager and the big bosses in IT that I did exactly as instructed and I did all I could do. That made me feel better cuz he sure made me feel like crap cuz he was saying we could be recovering disk drives for months. Anyway not a big loss of data and all is ok thank goodness but it sure was the night I didn't expect from Hurricane Ike and I was so ready to go home that night and I all I kept thinking was I'm retiring in 2 months YAHOO!!

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is still having problems in Texas and anywhere else affected by this.

[irishseashell]

Is there a way to merge this thread with the weathe one?
I didn't realize there was another thread about this.
I started reading the other thread and WOW!
I can't believe how many people this had affected.