wkpoor
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Well after the Ohio Hurricane went through Sunday there is plenty of winter fuel available. Got some myself today. Anyone else score some storm downed trees?
Shucks, I'm still cutting them at dump sites where people dropped off their trees that were blown down by the Nebraska hurricane in June. Sounds like the same type of storm--steady winds of 110 mph with little, if any, rotation.Well after the Ohio Hurricane went through Sunday there is plenty of winter fuel available. Got some myself today. Anyone else score some storm downed trees?
Now I know this is going to be hard to believe, but based on the June storm destruction in Nebraska, it appears there is going to be enough tree biomass in Ohio that if picked up and dropped in OSU stadium in Columbus, it would fill the stadium to the brim at least a half dozen times.Yea it's a mess, 400,000 still with out power since Sunday. You can find wood everywhere.
Also said that people have been giving repair guys a hard time. Yelling at them, spitting and the like. Those guys have a tough enough job to do without that kind of B.S..
Shucks, I'm still cutting them at dump sites where people dropped off their trees that were blown down by the Nebraska hurricane in June. Sounds like the same type of storm--steady winds of 110 mph with little, if any, rotation.
Huge trees were uprooted that had lived for a hundred years or more. Some big trees took the roads and sidewalks with them as if they were plucked from the ground. Power was out at 130,000 locations for up to a week. It was a real mess that took over a month to clean up. Some large weakened branches are still falling.
I guess your hurricane was an Ike spinoff, but no one knows what caused the June 25 hurricane in southeast Nebraska except freak weather conditions. Buildings that had stood for over a century were flattened to the ground. Entire cornfields were destroyed as if they had been stepped on by a giant foot. Hail stones blew sideways like a machine gun, shattering windows and destroying siding. I personally had never seen anything like it.
I surveyed that damage between Valley and Fremont, NE. I never saw such crop damage in my whole life, in addition to the old barns that were blown down, some of which had been there for over 100 years.My son was working on the new grain facility build in waterloo about 85ft in the air. Had I not called him, when it hit us (Fremont), more than likely we would have been burying him, and several of his co workers. That was one scary day, to say the least.
When the storm was over, he emerged from the cement shelter that they took cover in, they found sheets of metal lodged in cars and the surrounding trees. I drove into Omaha the next day to see an old college roommate, and couldn't believe my eyes. Every field between Fremont and Omaha, completely flattened. Pivots twisted.
We have two cottonwoods at the end lot on our lake that are down, but no way to really get to them, since the only access is through the beach, and any vehicle with any weight will sink to the axles. I have a feeling those trees are going to be there for quite a while.
I talked to my mother who lives in rural Warren county in southern Ohio. Said not expecting electric until the weekend been off since 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Also said that people have been giving repair guys a hard time. Yelling at them, spitting and the like. Those guys have a tough enough job to do without that kind of B.S..
I talked to my mother who lives in rural Warren county in southern Ohio. Said not expecting electric until the weekend been off since 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Also said that people have been giving repair guys a hard time. Yelling at them, spitting and the like. Those guys have a tough enough job to do without that kind of B.S..
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