Nightmare winds

[TrueblueCATfan]

just in and what a nightmare on the road...literally dodging things blowing across the road..power lines down and every traffic light out on Popular level road
wished I had not gone out
stay home if you do not have to go out

[trublu]

Girl, I know what you mean. We just back from Ohio County. My mother-in-law was there to visit her family. There were trees across the roads everywhere. We had to move two of them. And, there were power lines across one road. We literally had to drive through part of a field around one. The winds were absolutely crazy! I don't want to make a trip like that any time soon.

[BrassowFan]

It's the same up here in Columbus, OH. With these winds, I can only imagine what it was like for the people in Texas!

[BamaCat86]

My dad called me this afternoon and said that they lost power during their worship service at church and drove home to find trees down, damage to their roof and "stuff" flying around everywhere. They live south of Owensboro at Livia. He said Owensboro had reported downed trees and other damage around town.

[UK78ALUM]

I'm not home, but my wife called me to say that we have one tree down in the front yard and that the shingles on the barn roof are "leaving".

Believe it or not, I still have 3 groups out on the golf course which is why I'm still at work.

[BrassowFan]

The wind picked up the glass from my patio table and threw it against the fire pit.. just in case you're wondering, concrete beats glass...

I also have a piece of siding that's blowing in the wind, I hope that it doesn't come off so that I can have it repaired vs. trying to match it with a new piece.

To top it all off, the cable won't stay on for more then 2-3 minutes.. how am I expected to keep up with my fantasy football team?

[ryanebelhar]

power just came on after being off for 6 hours. my mom said pretty much all of Owensboro is without power

[misterbluecat]

The weather station on my deck has registered gusts upwards of 55, steady 20-25. No damage here yet, but I have heard a few trees break elsewhere in the neighborhood.

[Will Lavender]

Probably the fiercest winds I've seen since we moved to Louisville six years ago.

It was tearing the shingles off my neighbor's roof. Power just came back on, thankfully, as the milk was spoiling and my little girl needs her ba-ba or else she goes into mad fits of rage. :icon_mrgreen:

[DenCat]

I guess I came out pretty lucky. My neighbor across the street has a tree lying across the back of her house. The guys next to me has siding ripped off. All I have is some tree branches, very small ones at that, thrown around the yard. My power never went out for more than a couple of minutes. My mom has a tree limb across some power lines, so of course no power. To add insult to injury, it is blocking her driveway. Two of my brothers live in J-town and they have no power.

I heard on the news that more people are without power now, than was during the 1974 tornado. LGE is reporting it could take more than a week to get all the power back on.

I have to think as dry as it has been around here this summer, it is a wonder there were not more trees snapping with the wind. I just hope there were no major injuries.

[ukblue22]

Just spoke to my Mom in Edgewood, KY. They lost shingles off the roof and have been without power since 1pm Sunday. She said all the schools are closed tomorrow. All of Northern KY and Cincinnati is a mess.

[Corumicity]

Southern Hopkins Co. (roughly 80,000 people) are without power right now ... one of my favorite trees at my dad's house fell down. I may post up some pictures later. It was crazy.

[ukfubar]

My father in law, who lives in Kattawa (sp?) was moving a tree that was blocking his drive way and another tree fell on him. He broke is clavicle, scapula, two ribs, cut his head.

[BrassowFan]

ukfubar, I hope that your father-in-law is okay and recovers quickly!

Schools are closed tomorrow here in Central Ohio as well. The damage to my home is minimal compared to stories that I'm seeing from the area, I probably have only $200-$300 worth of damage, most of which is glass for a patio table.

I've never witnessed sustained winds for that length of time, it was simply incredible. Power is out in much of the city, people are being asked to stay home when possible, and the rain has yet to really hit us yet.

This is an odd storm that will be remembered for quite sometime.

[Corumicity]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/2858440904_35ed13b20f.jpg

Here's just one of the pics of our tree that fell.

[DenCat]

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/denrh/tree.jpg

This is one tree that fell just behind my Mom's house. The roots on the tree that fell on this truck had to be at least 8 feet across.

[JawadtheChinchilla]

This was is what happened to my car this afternoon.

http://photos-f.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v333/121/102/210609773/n210609773_32508797_613.jpg

[misterbluecat]

Your hub cap?

Seems like central Lexington got the worst of it. Where you at in town Jawad?

[BigBlue75]

My church is off Beulah Church Road and during service the power almost went off about 4 times. My wife sent me a text message about the winds and I left early.

We lost power at our house at about 2 p.m. yesterday and it didn't come back on until 4:20 a.m.

Our yard looks like a war zone. Huge tree limbs down all over the place. Fortunately, none hit the house.

[OldCatFan]

I lost all the siding on one side of my house. This the worst winds I have seen around here since I can remember.

[CATHYnKY]

No power at my house still. Neither does my sister, brother, sister in law or mother in law. Seems like all around us the power is on. Hurstbourne Ln is sporatic. Kroger at Stonybrook is on, but couldn't get gas this morning. Meijers at Hurstbourne and Watterson Trail is on as is everything in that strip mall. The boonies of Easum Rd near Charlie Ventnor Park has power. Go figure :shrug1:

[WildcatDan]

Owensboro got hit pretty hard. Lots of homes without power here (including me) and they are saying it may be several days before we get it back because a lot of the folks who would normally be taking care of that went down to Texas to help restore power after Ike hit there. We DO have power at work so I was expected to come in today. Yipee :icon_rolleyes:

We lost part of our fence, had a bunch of shingles torn off, and are likely going to lose about $300-$400 in frozen food in our freezer if they do not get the electricity turned back on soon. But at least none of my family was hurt...

[UK Chic]

No power for us but we are right down the street from CathyinKy so I figured we would be in the same boat.
Stayed at the in-laws last night and probably will do the same tonight.

Parents are in Fern Creek and no power. Each side of their house was missed by inches from falling trees. They were not hurt, no damage to the house except a little gutter damage - truly, thankful.

Now, I need to find a Mexican restaurant that is open. I am starving!! :icon_smile:

[JawadtheChinchilla]

Your hub cap?

Seems like central Lexington got the worst of it. Where you at in town Jawad?

This was actually in Elizabethtown, but I live just off of Boston Road behind the Kroger store. E-town got hit pretty hard. I haven't seen that many trees down since some really bad severe storms a few years ago.

[lighthouse]

I'm an Allstate Agent, and we turned in over 300 claims this morning. Here's some pointers. If your damage is minor, some shingles or siding off, minor fence damage, or something like that, call someone you trust to give you an estimate. The reason, your damage might not meet your deductible, and/or you might lose a "claim free" discount. Also, if your damage can wait, call your insurance company tomorrow, phones are crazy today with people calling with major damage.

If you don't have power and there's no damage to your house, the food in your frig or freezer is covered. Also, if a tree falls on a car, the car insurance will fix the car, not the homeowners. Here is an often asked question. If my neighbors tree falls on my house, is it his responsibility? The answer is NO. If his tree is alive and falls on your house, your insurance company will fix your house. It works the same way if your tree falls on his house. Now, if the tree is dead and is a obvious peril, that's different.

If anyone has questions, PM me.

Good Luck.

[WildcatDan]

I'm an Allstate Agent, and we turned in over 300 claims this morning. Here's some pointers. If your damage is minor, some shingles or siding off, minor fence damage, or something like that, call someone you trust to give you an estimate. The reason, your damage might not meet your deductible, and/or you might lose a "claim free" discount. Also, if your damage can wait, call your insurance company tomorrow, phones are crazy today with people calling with major damage.

If you don't have power and there's no damage to your house, the food in your frig or freezer is not covered. Also, if a tree falls on a car, the car insurance will fix the car, not the homeowners. Here is an often asked question. If my neighbors tree falls on my house, is it his responsibility? The answer is NO. If his tree is alive and falls on your house, your insurance company will fix your house. It works the same way if your tree falls on his house. Now, if the tree is dead and is a obvious peril, that's different.

If anyone has questions, PM me.

Good Luck.

What kind of damage do you have to have for food in the fridge and freezer to be covered?

[PJ]

Got pretty bad out in Shepherdsville. A tree broke in half and fell on the side of my garage, all whilst I was sleeping on the swing outside. Lost power about 2pm, didn't get it back on until 6am this morning. Went to work, didn't have power until it was time to clock on, then almost like clock work, it turns on at 7:30.

[lighthouse]

What kind of damage do you have to have for food in the fridge and freezer to be covered?

If the power is out because damage on your property disrupted your power, then it should be a covered loss.

[JawadtheChinchilla]

I'm an Allstate Agent, and we turned in over 300 claims this morning. Here's some pointers. If your damage is minor, some shingles or siding off, minor fence damage, or something like that, call someone you trust to give you an estimate. The reason, your damage might not meet your deductible, and/or you might lose a "claim free" discount. Also, if your damage can wait, call your insurance company tomorrow, phones are crazy today with people calling with major damage.

If you don't have power and there's no damage to your house, the food in your frig or freezer is not covered. Also, if a tree falls on a car, the car insurance will fix the car, not the homeowners. Here is an often asked question. If my neighbors tree falls on my house, is it his responsibility? The answer is NO. If his tree is alive and falls on your house, your insurance company will fix your house. It works the same way if your tree falls on his house. Now, if the tree is dead and is a obvious peril, that's different.

If anyone has questions, PM me.

Good Luck.

How about if the tree branch that fell on your car came from a tree that's on city property and that the city has been called several times about taking the tree down and they said they would and haven't done it yet?

[lighthouse]

How about if the tree branch that fell on your car came from a tree that's on city property and that the city has been called several times about taking the tree down and they said they would and haven't done it yet?

It would only be covered by the comprehensive coverage on the auto policy. You might try to get something from the city, but I doubt it will work.

[TrueblueCATfan]

Well I finally got my power back on about 9:00 last night....still alot of businsses around me without power....my phones lines are atill out though At&t said it could be Saturday before they are back on..but I don't really care about that...we have been using cell phones...
we have been cleaning up our yard for 2 days.....:mad:

[TrueblueCATfan]

My daughters best friends dad works for LG&E and he was summoned back here to Louisville from Louisana Sunday night where he was helping out down there....he was told this was the worst power outage this city has seen in over 30 years.....
she also has a freind who works for KU in Lexington and he is here helping out too:thumbup:

[WildcatDan]

If the power is out because damage on your property disrupted your power, then it should be a covered loss.

Nope.... just the general power outage. We had to throw away everything in our regular fridge and freezer yesterday but the deep freeze we never opened. I think that stuff will be ok.

I am going to try to get it covered anyway. They covered that stuff when we had the tornado and there was no direct damage to the property that caused the power to be out then either.

[lighthouse]

Nope.... just the general power outage. We had to throw away everything in our regular fridge and freezer yesterday but the deep freeze we never opened. I think that stuff will be ok.

I am going to try to get it covered anyway. They covered that stuff when we had the tornado and there was no direct damage to the property that caused the power to be out then either.

It never hurts to try. Let me know how you come out.

[surveyor]

We've been spoiled over the past dozen years. Since 1998 (until Sunday) we've never had an outage that lasted more than a few minutes, and even those were few and far between.
We're on Salt River Rural Electric and it's night and day from what it was growing up out here.

25+ years ago you could count on being without power for an hour if a moderate to heavy storm came through.

Sunday we were without power for about 3 hours - from 1 pm to approx. 4 pm.

Lost a 60 foot pine 16 inches in diameter, crushing a segment of fence.
Spent yesterday cutting it up and repairing the fence.

I feel for the folks who are still without power. Anyone on LGE service in Mount Washington didn't get power restored until yesterday morning.

[cumberlandredskin]

What kind of damage do you have to have for food in the fridge and freezer to be covered?

If you eat it then your health insurance kick in. :icon_biggrin:

[Chaz]

I've just now got some power from a portable genereator. I was lucky to get one at a farm store who just got a shipment in and out of 24, there were 4 left when i got mine. It is pretty bad here in Hancock Co with over half of the county without power.

I had several large limbs down from trees in my yard, and at the farm, we had a barn destroyed, the roof blown off a shop and several trees down breaking fences etc. Hopefully we'll get power back by tomorrow. Like Dan said, i've lost all of the food in the freezers and Fridges. Having to cook on th grill. Now that's a challange when you're not used to cooking instead of grillin'.

[capcat]

This is really something..all from Ike, or was it another system in addition to that one? I've been working a lot and haven't kept up with the details, except for here.

[freethrow]

I am still without power. My sister got her power back today and I am posting from her home. Within a 3 block radius of me there must be over a dozen trees totally down and many more missing huge hunks that are either crashed into cars or on rooftops. Looks like I may get power back tomorrow or the next day though. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

[BrassowFan]

This is really something..all from Ike, or was it another system in addition to that one? I've been working a lot and haven't kept up with the details, except for here.

It's all from Ike. I live 200 miles north of Louisville and much of this city is also without power, trees are down everywhere, and a lot of damage to many homes. I've been lucky, I've had power the entire time but many of my neighbors will have to wait until the weekend to have theirs turned back on.

I believe that Columbus initially had 500K without power, I believe that I heard that it was 2 million total.

[capcat]

Hard to believe it could still have caused that much damage. My daughter said they had high winds in upstate New York as well. Not as bad as you all did, though. I read that Ike cooled the Gulf down to the point that we, at least, are not likely to have any more storms of its strength this season. Imagine if it had not lost category 4 strength in Cuba.

[gerntz]

Our power was out for 46 hours. Came on at 12:30p today. My son in an eastern Cincy burb is still w/o power but has borrowed a portable generator to keep the fridge going. Guy I work with lives 5 miles away & never lost power. Strange.

[surveyor]

Hard to believe it could still have caused that much damage. My daughter said they had high winds in upstate New York as well. Not as bad as you all did, though. I read that Ike cooled the Gulf down to the point that we, at least, are not likely to have any more storms of its strength this season. Imagine if it had not lost category 4 strength in Cuba.

Actually not solely Ike.

The remnants of Ike coincided with a cold front that moved faster than expected. Had it not been for that the result would have simply been thunderstorms and moderate winds.

[DenCat]

Still a lot of people here in Louisville without power. Could be 10-14 days in some cases. Lines at gas stations seem to be shorter, but are still there. Some stations have gas, but no power. The ones with power keep running out. Schools will be out for the 3rd day tomorrow. Still a lot of trees blocking roads.

While all this bad for the folks here in town, it's nothing like what the folks in Texas are experiencing. I have been through hurricanes in the past and they are no fun. People around here are not accustomed to that much wind without a tornado warning. I guess that makes it so difficult for people here to cope. There is just no way to prepare for it.

[yitbos]

From what I had heard, Dayton Power & Light had roughly 300k without power and i've heard all kinds of numbers for Duke (cincy area) anywhere from 400-900k without it.

Worst part of this for me was the fact that I had just gotten back from England and had gone to the store and bought like $150 in groceries. Sadly, unlike the ice storm where i had no power for a week, it wasn't cold enough to just store the stuff in coolers in the garage.

[misterbluecat]

This was actually in Elizabethtown, but I live just off of Boston Road behind the Kroger store. E-town got hit pretty hard. I haven't seen that many trees down since some really bad severe storms a few years ago.

Small world. I live within walking distance of your house. Maybe sometime we could grab a drink at Starbucks and talk football?

[weedhopper41]

The best I can say is no one here hurt but it did us a number. I used to have a huge hickory tree by my driveway. Part of it crushed two cars, damaged another and only thing that saved my pick up was that it hit the topper which is trash now but better than loosing another vehicle. While we were out there trying to assess the mess and get the 1 undamaged car out of the driveway the other part of the tree came down. We have a mobile home by the driveway 1 of the kids lived in. The 2nd part of the tree crushed the part he was living in. While we were trying to get his belongings out of there other branchs in the woods beside it started coming down so I got everyone out of the woods. Luckily nothing else was damaged.
People around here cleared the road so traffic could get through but tree was still on the main phone line. The fire dept showed up about 4 hrs later and said when they drove by to go to other parts nearby didn't see anyway to help because the two cars were totaled. They didn't see my truck because of the tree. I had braced the tree as best as i could to try to save my truck but was afraid I might cause the tree to shift so waited. When the did come they used crane on their truck to steady the tree while they cut the part off my truck and I was able to drive it out of harms way. Without their help most likely wouldn't have a truck now.
At least the cars that were crushed had full coverage. My truck just has liability. Now that we got the tree off the cars finally just have to wait for the insurance company to come get them and settle up. However long that is going to take.

[ryanebelhar]

parents in owensboro still don't have power

[lighthouse]

After reading weedhopper41's post, here's a suggestion I give all my auto insurance clients. Always carry Comprenhensive coverage on all vehicles regardless of age. Comp covers any damage to the vehicle other than collision. IOW, fire, theft, vandalism, hail damage, and in this case, wind and tree's falling. A Kentucky policy also covers glass breakage with no deductible. If you hit an animal, most of the time it's a deer, the damage is covered under Comp. The premium is not bad on most vehicles, unless they are a high theft item.

[MildCat]

What a mess this storm is.

I hope it is a quick clean up

[TrueblueCATfan]

welcome mildcat

[JawadtheChinchilla]

Small world. I live within walking distance of your house. Maybe sometime we could grab a drink at Starbucks and talk football?

Yeah, sounds good. I'll have to figure out a time when I'm not traveling with ESPN but I'd love to meet another WCN'er. I'm hoping to make the tailgate for either Arkansas or Georgia, as those are the only other home games which I'll be home for. Back on the subject of storm damage, it looks like my car is going to totaled (for insurance purposes). The estimates I got were $2800-3000, while the value of my car is around $3000. And it looks like I probably won't get any money from the City of Elizabethtown for it.

[freethrow]

Got my power back about 20 minutes ago. YIPEEEEEE!!!!!! :)

[TrueblueCATfan]

Got my power back about 20 minutes ago. YIPEEEEEE!!!!!! :)

can I ask what area you are in? if you don't mind

[Chaz]

Got my power bac about 4:30 this afternoon. A brother still doesn't have power.

[freethrow]

can I ask what area you are in? if you don't mind

Sure, I am east of Jeffersonville, IN by about 12 miles. Sad though because not ten minutes after I posted last night my power went out again and is still off. Posting from my sisters again right now. :( Supposed to be back on tonight but I am not so sure???

[freethrow]

I got home at 7:30 and still no power but it came on at 7:59 and has stayed on for over half an hour. Maybe an honest to goodness YIPEEE! is called for now? :)

[surveyor]

Sure, I am east of Jeffersonville, IN by about 12 miles. Sad though because not ten minutes after I posted last night my power went out again and is still off. Posting from my sisters again right now. :( Supposed to be back on tonight but I am not so sure???

My employer lives in northeast Jeff and got power back at about 4:00 pm.

[TrueblueCATfan]

most of my family and friends have got their power back on.....I have a cousin who lives near Audubon Park and she is still without power

hopefully everyone will have it back by the weekend

[CatsSaintsFan]

I live by the Penn Run Golf course in Okolona and still have no power. It has really killed my spirit. We have no wires down, no tree to be removed, and because it only effects 2 steets in my whole neighborhood I'll be without power for 10 days for something they could have repaired in 60 minutes. As a person who works for Metro Louisville, our government is the worst. Were the 14th largest city in america but we are Mayberry RFD when it comes to a crisis. Only here could a dry hurricane cripple a city this long. Houston restored power for 3million people in the same amount of time and they had water to deal with.

[surveyor]

Considering there are crews from as far away as Georgia here to help get power back on (as well as southern Indiana) I think they're doing the best they can given the circumstances.
While there likely isn't any downed lines in your development, series of downed transmission lines leading into it could still conceivably take much time to address.

In the center of Mount Washington is approx. 9 homes without power, even though calls to LG&E result in responses telling them,
"You should have power, everything serving that area has been connected." But they don't have power. No one has been out to verify the problem.

FWIW, as of this morning's news, 1 million Houston residents are still without power.

As bad as it is here, it could be much worse.

[lighthouse]

FWIW, as of this morning's news, 1 million Houston residents are still without power.

As bad as it is here, it could be much worse.

That's for sure. What if we had rain to go along with the wind? Damage to homes would have doubled.

[WildcatDan]

It never hurts to try. Let me know how you come out.

My insurance does cover the loss up to $500, but we have to provide an inventory and cost estimate of what we threw out. Once we started doing this we realized how much we actually had in there. I am just glad that most of it will be covered.

[lighthouse]

Dan. Thanks for reminding me of an earlier post where I was mistaken. I don't know what I was thinking, but the lost food is a covered loss. Because your deductible applies, unless you have a lot of damage to the structure, most of the time the food by itself isn't enough.

[delkfor3]

I spent my time during the windstorm, dodging falling tree limbs, a wire shooting sparks at me, and watching sideing fly off my house, and saw a piece of sheet metal blow down the street. I guess I didn't have enough sence to come out of the wind. That storm was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen.

On a side note, I have seen more destroyed homes and crushed cars then I care to see.