Storm of September 2008

The remnants of Hurricane Ike came through Ohio on Sunday afternoon and did a lot of damage. The winds were up to 95 mph (about 150 kmh) and blew down a lot of trees, ripped roofs off houses, and cut power to most of Franklin County, which includes Columbus and the surrounding suburbs. Many people are still without power. We were fortunate that our power came back at about 4:30 early Monday morning.

So, on Monday afternoon we took a walk through our neighborhood and looked at some of the damage. I had to bring the camera, of course.

Lots of branches were blown off the trees.Some yards lost entire trees.Some of the branches that blew down were more like half of the tree.This is what's left of a huge silver maple that was by the playground in our neighborhood. People who live in the houses there said the sound of it coming down was like nothing they had ever heard.The park bench didn't fare so well, either.Here's another view of the tree.The tree in this next image almost fell on some of our neighbors as they were walking in the park. Yep, the top half of the tree is on the ground.Another tree that didn't come all the way down. We weren't sure if it was going to stay there while we walked past.It was a scary day and thankfully we weren't hurt. We were pretty lucky to have power and not have any damage.