your damage from ike?

[Ginger's Mom]

Sorry to hear you lost all that food, but I am glad to hear that your house wasn't damaged.

I noticed that chocolatepuppy hasn't been on since Sunday evening. The thought had occurred to me that she lost power or internet service as a result of Ike.

[Craftlady]

A few dozen shingles came off the roof. House across street got a tree on it's roof (no extensive damage, everyone is ok). Neighbors gathered outside during the wind storm to help try to clean up the tree. They got hard part done within 3 days then experts came yesterday and finished the job. Power was only out 3 hrs here. In some areas 3 days.

[mina'smomma]

Nothing up here but loads of rain. We were lucky by the sound of it. I still feel sorry for those who had the brunt of it.

[Medusa]

I lost power 8 times before it came back on for good. Large tree branches came down; I had them cut up and removed. Some people in N. Canton still don't have power. I'll be getting an estimate tomorrow to see about taking down the tree that always gives me problems whenever there are high winds.

[boomersooner]

It ended up missing us, really, here in Dallas. It went to the east. That Saturday, it rained all day, but it was a nice gentle soaking rain. The winds were not anywhere what they had predicted, either.

[Seravieve]

We have a lot of flooding around the STL area.. Our house is ok, but another unit down the street had parts of the roof torn off and the rest collapsed in. We just got lots of rain here.. my mom's power was out for a couple hours, but ours wasnt (we're 15 min from her house).

[sirrahbed]

We had some fairly minor things but still big for us. A few shingles blew off the roof, we lost maybe 6-8 pieces of our siding and our large silver maples got a divine pruning Hubby cut up and hauled away 5 truckloads of the debris when we were done. Thankfully, none of them hit any people or property. A few could have done some big damage and we were outside some of the time talking to neighbors and gathering up each other's siding and shingles, etc. Then the wind really showed us the power and we all scurried back inside. The power was out for about 24 hours for us but neighbors went 5 days and I think there may be a few still in the dark this morning. I heard that electric trucks arrived in Ohio from Wisconsin to help get us all back on the grid.

Funny thing also - we had no cell or local landline telephone service for the first 24 hours. But I could call my dad and daughter in TEXAS Go figure? We had to laugh that we had been praying for Texans during Ike and then Ike came up north and tried to scare us