Like a Ghost Town
By worldwise1
@worldwise1 (14885)
United States
September 16, 2008 1:53pm CST
It was necessary for me to go out this morning to take care of some business, and what I saw was pretty sobering. In the part of the city where I live it is much like a ghost town insofar as businesses go. The main street leading to the only shopping center is still totally lacking traffic lights. People must use the honor system by observing the four-way traffic rule. Once we got to the shopping center itself virtually every business was still closed. No shops open. No bank. No post office. No fast food restaurants. No supermarket. It was strange and carried a sort of apocalyptic air about the entire area. At least two members of my family are still without power and my youngest daughter had to bring her perishables over to put in my freezer this morning. In some areas people are even without water. I was completely unaware of the magnitude of this disaster until I ventured out today. For those of you who live in areas affected by Sunday's high winds and rains, how is your city bouncing back?
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
17 Sep 08
My family is doing well compared to some, weemam, and I thank you for your kind thoughts. I am amazed at the fortitude of the ones who have been affected by this storm. People are helping one another -as it should be.
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
16 Sep 08
Our town is fairing really well. All the towns around of us are still waiting for power. I don't know why we were the first to get our power on, but am thankful that we were. We still are doing alot of cleaning up, but the schools didn't even miss a day.
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
17 Sep 08
My daughters informed me today that they are still without power, Thoroughrob, so this was worse than I thought in the beginning. Families have lost huge amounts of food due to not having anywhere to store it. It's incredible!
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@carolbee (16230)
• United States
17 Sep 08
We still have some power outages. The rivers haven't crested yet but expect to by tomorrow. It's been a major mess with flooding. Thank goodness our immediate area wasn't effected. Tree limbs were down on our street but fell into the homeowner's yards and didn't bother the power lines. Three people were killed in the heavy rains that fell Sunday morning. We had between 5-6 inches of rain in a short amount of time. Nobody was prepared and some didn't listen to the media who instructed people not to go out in deep water and try to move cars, etc. It was so sad.
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
17 Sep 08
Our situation would have been much worse, carolbee, had we gotten the rain. We got all of the high winds instead. Nature is a force to be reckoned with.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
19 Sep 08
Well, my city actually started getting back yesterday, but some places still have no power. My son used every bit of his calamity days, so any snow days they get this year will have to be made up..I hope we have a mild winter..
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
22 Sep 08
It seems like every year, carmelanirel, those calamity days are used up for one reason or another. I think last year it was due to the severe heat.
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
22 Sep 08
Usually my sons school doesn't use all those days up..I think that you might be in an area where they have year round school and schools starts much sooner, so you would have the days off where the heat was too high..
@Chevee (5905)
• United States
16 Sep 08
I haven't been watching the weather in your area, I went to your profile page and it said Ohio, are you getting bad weather from Ike? I didn't know it did any damage that far up in the states, I was focusing more on the Texas area. I watch the weather channel a lots, I hope things gets better in your town. Stay safe and take care.
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
17 Sep 08
As of today, Chevee, there are still some 150,000 people without power. The situation was so dire that workers have been brought in from as far away as New York to help restore power. I have never witnessed anything like this in my area. Most of the schools were able to reopen today. I can only imagine how hard it is for those people in Texas.
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