southern IN wind damage

[plantsnobin]

So, has anyone noticed that folks from this area haven't been on here for the last couple of days? Much of the southern 1/3 of the state had 80 mph winds on Sunday and is a disaster area. We were lucky enough to get power back on yesterday about 4 pm, don't know if Alan has power yet or not. Still can't get ahold of friends in next county to see if they are ok, haven't talked to Alan yet either. Barb would also have been in the affected area, don't know how it was in Evansville where Bob is. Patrick-Hoosierheights- is also just down the road 10 miles from here. In Paoli city limits they did have power, so the stores and restuarants were open. It would have been unimaginable if they weren't. We never think about what would happen until it is too late. They were only predicting 40 mph winds, so nobody was prepared, and the electric companies had sent everyone to Texas to help out down there. We had to wait for our crews to drive back here. I will try to call Alan later to see if his greenhouses survived. My daughter works at the county co-op, and they didn't have power Monday either, and the Amish who came in were laughing their asses off at all the English who were freaked out about not having electricity.

[bluelacedredhead]

Karen, hopefully loss of power was all that the other members in the area sustained.
We had that same storm centre pass through. Once it got past your, it curved around the Great Lakes. I had lots of tree branches come down, and the driving rains caused a minor leak through an old window, but nothing drastic. My concerns were for the horses but they are fine. They probably just went back into the woods and stayed there until it was over.

Glad to have you safe and sound. Now I hope we hear from the others soon.

[plantsnobin]

I just talked to Alan, he still doesn't have electricity, but he does have water so at least he won't lose plants. Said the greenhouse was ok too. Blue, we have horses too, and right now they are fenced in an area that is partly wooded and partly open. They went to the open area and stood til it was over. In a storm, the horses are always an issue. We are always afraid they will bolt, and it seems when a horse gets out, it wants to run right down the middle of the highway. Nothing like a fat old woman running down the road trying to catch a horse. Thankfully it has been a long time since we have had one out on the road, the last time just about killed me. The weird thing about this storm was that we didn't get rain, just the winds. It could have been much worse, and even though many huge trees came down, it seemed like most of them blew away from houses.

[mayfinnfarm]

We just got power back around 2 this afternoon. Luckily, not much damage, just a few loose shingles, and the a/c unit got blown over and pulled away from the wall. We just moved here 2 1/2 months ago, and have no shade trees yet, all our trees are down by the creek, too far away to do any damage to anything. I don't have time to post here much, but this is the first site I came to when I got home. Glad to hear the rest of y'all are doing okay.

[canadamike]

I had a chance to speak with Alan over the phone today. They have been lucky, a couple of shingles gone from the roof, a small greenhouse tarp gone somewhere over the rainbow and other minor things like that, but electricity has come back, it's repair time I guess.

I was really worried about my friends in Indiana and around.

Johno, have you been spared? I totally forgot to ask you in my pm on fava beans. And the others here who did not give news, are you OK?

[grunt]

We both hope that all of you in the area were minimally affected by the weather there. Hopefully that was the last blast of the season. If this is global warming, who needs it?
Cheers
Dan & Val (Grunt & Grungy)

[Alan]

Glad to hear karen and May Fin Farms are ok. We actually came out pretty good compared to a lot of other folks! The greenhouses did great and to tell you the truth there were times I thought that it might have been safer in the greenhouse than it was in the house!

The only things that it really damaged was one of my new chicken coops which lost a tarp and my little rion greenhouse kit that I bought when I first started and use verry rarely had a pannel blown out of it. Both of those have since been fixed. We lost a few shingles off of the roof of the house, but not any big deal.

There is a ton of wood down in the forrest area but thats not necessarilly bad considering that we burn wood in the greenhouses for heat. I'll have plenty to heat both of the greenhouses with for the next several years!

Thanks to everybody who called or messaged or wroter here on the site!

Keep on postin' may finn, we are glad to have you here!

[johno]

There were some shear winds down here, and a little sprinkle of rain. We were spared any damage at my place. Glad everybody else is okay.

[plantsnobin]

I finally heard today from my friend Gene Bush, who owns Munchkin Nursery. They only got power restored yesterday evening around 7. Internet was out until today. From Sunday until Thursday without power, it starts to feel like a third world country after a while. For all the technological advances we enjoy, it don't mean shit when the lights go out.

[hoosierheightsfarm]

Why don't they bury our electric lines?

[barb]

I am happy to say that the only damage we had was a few shingles off our shed. We were only without power for a few hours. I feel very blessed that are house and trees survived winds that strong.

[ohiorganic]

84 of 88 counties in Ohio were effected (SE Ohio was spared) We got 70 mph winds with 85 mph gusts.

The plastic came off a hoop house (but this did not harm the structure and the plastic did not go anywhere), both our portable signs were knocked over but not harmed other than losing 2 "K"'s to the winds. My favorite tree was blown in half and the barn roof was damaged (but fixed within 5 days). I had no power for only 26 hours. All in all we got very lucky. There are still people in my county with no power but should be back on the grid in the next 24 hours. At the peak-Sunday-there were over 2,000,000 people without power in Ohio.

The storm hit on my 12th wedding anniversary so we now call the 12th anniversary the roofing metal anniversary because that is what we bought for each other.

[plantsnobin]

I truly don't know why they don't bury the lines. We frequently have high winds, not usually the large area that we had last week, but it is not unusual to have trees down on lines here and there. Then there are the ice storms that can cause outages. That is always worse since many people don't have heat when they don't have electricity. Our electric co-op newsletter came today, and they say there will be dramatic price increase starting in January. I'm sure there are some cons to burying lines, but it should be cheaper than constantly repairing lines.