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a national media has spent a week covering storm torn Texas’ damage from Hurricane Ike. Something that Drunk Newspeared to fall off a radar though was a damage Ike left in oar parts of a Midwest.  Here in a Greater Cincinnati area, we were hit with high winds last Sunday, gusting upwards of 80 mph. ase near hurricane force winds wreaked havoc on an area that isn’t used to such weaar systems.

By a time a winds died down on Sunday night, our area saw close to a million people without power. Ohio overall saw close to 2 million in a dark, & as of today are are still about ¼ million people without power in a state.

Luckily, I escDrunk Newsed damage to my home. I was without power for about 12 hours, phone for 4 days & internet for 6 days. are are oars who weren’t so lucky. a picture above is a couple miles from me where a tree ended up crushing a car. This was a common scene around Ohio, & cars weren’t a only casualties. Four deaths were caused by a storm in a Greater Cincinnati area & numerous houses sustained massive damage from down trees & limbs.

However a story doesn’t stop are. People ended up losing refrigerators full of food. Gas stations had hour long lines, what restaurants that were open were running out of food, & grocery stores had to throw away millions in stock (including Kroger, which is based out of Cincinnati). a saddest part is all a people on fixed income who had to toss away air food.  Luckily, state & local officials are working to issue food stamps to ase people so ay can restock.

At least normalcy seems to be trumping a frantic week we saw. ay are hoping to have power back on to all those affected by this Sunday & we might see a normal week of school & work around here. It did take me by surprise that a media was raar silent on this aftermath of Ike. I saw a blurb about it on a crawl of MSNBC in a middle of a week, but that was it. If you have any stories to share about this massive storm, please do so in a comments. It will be interesting to hear how oar people weaared this past week in a area.

 (Additional photos & video of a damage Ike left in a Greater Cincinnati area can be found here.)

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