[Trombone-l] Hurricane Winds Damage SW Ohio

[Eric Edwards]

 I think both of us Erics survived pretty well.

There wasn't much excitement around the North Dallas area this past weekend,
a bit of rain and some winds.
But nothing like you all got in East Texas, Louisiana and farther north &
east.

Best of luck with the clean up & recovery!

Eric 

Eric, Leandra, Sara, Jared & Lily
Edwards

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From: trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu [mailto:trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu]
On Behalf Of thetubameister at roadrunner.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:01 PM
To: Denny Seifried
Cc: trombone-l at samford.edu
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Hurricane Winds Damage SW Ohio

The extent of the wind was very wide.  I was commuting through three
counties in North Central Ohio yesterday, and it was blowing 50-70 mph the
entire time.  Actually, I was driving roughly in the direction of the wind,
so I got amazing mileage.  However, there were numerous limbs, wires, poles,
trees, emergency vehicled, road cones, orange barrels, and all manner of
obstructions and hazards on my trail.

We kept power, happily.  This area gets high wind remarkablly often, and a
freak ice/slush storm a couple winters ago removed many electric and tree
hazards, so high winds don't hurt us so much.  Also lucky was that my roof
is new and stood up well, and my car wasn't hit by anything too hard.

Weird weather all around.  Hope everyone's well.

Eric, you okay out there in TX?

J.c.
---- Denny Seifried <ddsbstrb at woh.rr.com> wrote: 
> List Members---I know there are several list-members who live in SW-Ohio,
like myself. Yesterday, starting around noon, SW Ohio began being pelted by
hurricane-force winds of from 60-75 miles per hour. These winds were steady,
devastating and lasted until around 6 PM EDT. Most of our area is
devastated, as we have never experienced such a large area of Ohio with this
amount of wind-damage. We ARE used to tornado-damage, which proves even more
devastating, but covers a very narrow path.
> 
> Dayton Power and Light had 200,000 customers without power, last evening.
There are trees down, everywhere, power lines down, as a result of these
downed trees. Quite a few large business buildings have roofs and trusses
blown down and houses have tree limb damage and a lot of shingle damage.
There are no schools in sessions in at least a 5 country area, around Dayton
OH. Several communities have water-rationing going on, as not all pumping
stations have electricity.
> 
> While all of this was going on, you could see the sun shinning! Our TV
weather reporters claim this was a once-in-a-life time weather situation,
which will probably never again happen, in our lifetimes. Let's hope they
are correct.
> 
> I was very lucky. I had no power from around 1:00, until around 9:00. I
had the candles burning and had my Coleman lantern out on the porch, ready
to go. I had the top blown out of a beautiful sweet-gum tree, I had planted
when I first moved into this home, in 1972. It was some big-stuff that came
down, but the tree is far enough away from the house and it just landed in
the yard. My son is coming over, tonight, and we will start to chain-saw it
up into pieces. I will have to get a pro tree trimmer to finish the job, as
several large limbs are not completely broke-off and still hang in the tree
or are caught up in the tree. No-way, will I mess with these, as they are
way too dangerous, without being ABOVE them, in a bucket-truck.
> 
> I have some shingle-loss on my two-story garage, out behind the house. Not
bad, as this is a second layer, as I had it re-shingled two summers ago.
> 
> I went out and drove around a little. Some major intersections in town
have either no power or the lights are down and damaged; so, driving is very
tricky. I was lucky, as I saw some huge trees or huge branches that were
into and through roofs on homes.
> 
> Hope all of you along the Gulf Coast are safe and looks like we will all
be doing a lot of repairs and clean-ups, together, even though we are over
1000 miles apart in location!
> 
> Denny Seifried
> Bass Trombone-Springfield (OH) Sym. & Dayton Jazz Orch.
> Adjunct Trombone-Wittenberg Univ. Dept. of Music 
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