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Veteran Expediter
Aletha and I watched with anticipation as Hanna moved up the East Coast. We had made plans to go to Emerald Isle, NC which is a barrier island.
We left on Saturday night about 10:30 pm. Upon our arrival in Emerald Isle the weather was a sunny 91 degrees. No signs of damage to the condo and the beach was intact.
I kept watching Ike as it made its way across the Atlantic. As Ike turned toward the Gulf of Mexico we hopped on a ferry and went out 23 miles to Orcacoke Island. It was a little warm, but we walked around town until about 7 pm and then sat on the bay at sunset in a little outdoor restaurant. At 10 pm we took the ferry back over to Cedar Island and got back into the car for the drive to the condo.
Friday evening was a great day up in New Bern, NC. The Sheraton Hotel/Marina has a really nice deck. We sat and listened to classic rock, you know...songs with lyrics that you can actually understand. We invited a couple to sit at our table with us. They were from Manchester, England. They come over twice a year and they are looking to retire here in the U.S. Ironic that nobody is looking to retire in Kenya, Iraq, Iran, India...etc.
Sunday morning we made our way back toward Ohio. The early morning forecast on the Weather Channel had predicted the remants of Ike to dump substantial amounts of rain in the Ohio Valley region. Aletha said, "That's good, the lawn could use a good soaking."
Our son Chris works the City of Moraine as a Recreational Assistant. He was asked to work on Sunday afternoon at the Civic Center near our home. About 2:30 pm he called us and said that here were trees being blown over in the park surrounding the Civic Center. I thought to myself, "Oh my, that old tree out back..." They sent everyone home from the Civic Center about 5:00pm. Chris called us when he arrived at house.
Yep! That old tree went down, but you couldn't have felled it with an axe any better than the storm. It fell away from the house, missed the power pole by 6 inches, missed our shed by 24 inches, missed the neighbor's house by 6 inches, caught a feeder power line running to a pole adjacent to us and pulled that pole down, but that pole missed out house too!
Chris had been parking his car in the driveway as we were gone and the placed down the street where he normally parks had a tree laying across the roofs of those cars parked in that spot. Had we been here...his car would have suffered severe damage.
I found one shingle missing from the roof and some siding that need to be refitted. We were very fortunate! It took me about 3 hours to get everything put back into its proper place.
Ike finally made its long circular journey into Ohio. Winds were clocked at 76mph. That is a Cat 1 hurricane! Ike literally came in the back door and hammered us.
Between the Dayton Mall and the house (about 5 miles) I saw over a hundred trees downs. Many homes still without power.
We left on Saturday night about 10:30 pm. Upon our arrival in Emerald Isle the weather was a sunny 91 degrees. No signs of damage to the condo and the beach was intact.
I kept watching Ike as it made its way across the Atlantic. As Ike turned toward the Gulf of Mexico we hopped on a ferry and went out 23 miles to Orcacoke Island. It was a little warm, but we walked around town until about 7 pm and then sat on the bay at sunset in a little outdoor restaurant. At 10 pm we took the ferry back over to Cedar Island and got back into the car for the drive to the condo.
Friday evening was a great day up in New Bern, NC. The Sheraton Hotel/Marina has a really nice deck. We sat and listened to classic rock, you know...songs with lyrics that you can actually understand. We invited a couple to sit at our table with us. They were from Manchester, England. They come over twice a year and they are looking to retire here in the U.S. Ironic that nobody is looking to retire in Kenya, Iraq, Iran, India...etc.
Sunday morning we made our way back toward Ohio. The early morning forecast on the Weather Channel had predicted the remants of Ike to dump substantial amounts of rain in the Ohio Valley region. Aletha said, "That's good, the lawn could use a good soaking."
Our son Chris works the City of Moraine as a Recreational Assistant. He was asked to work on Sunday afternoon at the Civic Center near our home. About 2:30 pm he called us and said that here were trees being blown over in the park surrounding the Civic Center. I thought to myself, "Oh my, that old tree out back..." They sent everyone home from the Civic Center about 5:00pm. Chris called us when he arrived at house.
Yep! That old tree went down, but you couldn't have felled it with an axe any better than the storm. It fell away from the house, missed the power pole by 6 inches, missed our shed by 24 inches, missed the neighbor's house by 6 inches, caught a feeder power line running to a pole adjacent to us and pulled that pole down, but that pole missed out house too!
Chris had been parking his car in the driveway as we were gone and the placed down the street where he normally parks had a tree laying across the roofs of those cars parked in that spot. Had we been here...his car would have suffered severe damage.
I found one shingle missing from the roof and some siding that need to be refitted. We were very fortunate! It took me about 3 hours to get everything put back into its proper place.
Ike finally made its long circular journey into Ohio. Winds were clocked at 76mph. That is a Cat 1 hurricane! Ike literally came in the back door and hammered us.
Between the Dayton Mall and the house (about 5 miles) I saw over a hundred trees downs. Many homes still without power.
