your damage from ike?

**Seravieve** · 09-19-2008, 11:14 PM

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** · 09-20-2008, 03:59 AM

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

**chocolatepuppy** · 09-21-2008, 04:52 PM

Our power was off for a few hours. Two power companies run down our road, the other was off for 4 days! Our cable was off until today. Both our tv and our online service. There were many large trees down, one of course on the power lines. It was a very scary evening.

Thanks Ginger's Mom for thinking of me.

**pitc9** · 09-22-2008, 09:05 AM

Up here in NE Ohio there were people with out power for a few days and I lost water for a few hours then I was under a boil alert for 4 days. But I know people down in Dayton, OH are still with out power.

**Scooter's Mom** · 09-22-2008, 08:59 PM

My dad, grandmother, cousins, brother, uncle and best friend area all still without power. My one brother who lives in Brazoria County got his power back on Wednesday.