OH and KY in State of Emergency with Absolutely NO MSM Coverage!

Update on where we stand Day 3 of Hurricane Ike Wreaking Havoc in Ohio and Kentucky:



www.wcpo.com...



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www.local12.com...

This exact same thing happened in Baton Rouge, LA and much of south Louisiana after Gustav hit. 80% of the city was without power for days. My own family only got power back on Thursday of last week. Over ten days without! This is how it will be in Texas as well.

The days of the MSM covering wide-scale human suffering in the U.S. are over. The psychic impact on the voting populace is too volatile for the PTB. The Republicans lost the Congress in 2006, a year after Katrina, in part because of the perceived failures of FEMA and the Bush Administration.

I'm not trying to be political but perception is reality in politics.

reply to post by nyk537


WOW holy cow 30,000 pounds of dry ice?? Well good job to your business, I am just so glad that it's not 93 degrees here like it was a few days before IKE came through or there would have been some really desperate people out there!

reply to post by FritosBBQTwist


Hiyah neighbor!

Yeah I can't believe what it's like and yes I drove around a little yesterday but got urged by several policeman who were guarding a downed power line to stay off the roads if I didn't have to be out, so I cut my drive short.

reply to post by kosmicjack


Hi kosmic,

Sorry to hear about Gustav wreaking so much havoc where you are. And, about politicizing this issue, the MSM is largely slanted to the left, so the only way we'd here about the millions of folks suffering in Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana and Indiana is if FEMA and the local governments were NOT getting the job done. Then it would be splashed all over CNN and MSNBC and on Good Morning America.

reply to post by LateApexer313


You better believe it.

And that figure is just for our Louisville location! We've got a distributor in Napoleon, OH that's moving it pretty well too.

I also got word from our guy in Louisville that power could be down for 10-14 days.

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I live in Columbus Ohio and I have to say we have it easy despite not having power for a couple days. It is not the end of the world. Most people I talk to are complaining because they can't tape their favorite TV shows. It hasn't been life or death.

reply to post by Dronetek


Awesome Dronetek, I can't wait to see your footage. Post it when you get the chance! There's some amazing footage on the local news sites but I myself didn't get any footage. The Bengal's game was called "the wind bowl" not that many people watched it I am sure But I saw it right before the power went out, and it showed the beginnings of hurricane Ike rolling through!

Hey LA! I hope you all are having a better day.

I just wanted to update from Indiana. I'm in central Indy and while we had 60 mi. wind gusts and lots of tress down, we were really quite lucky. However, more wind damage was in the southern part of the state while the very northern part of the state got the rain and flooding. There are still tens of thousands without power, the Carolina's have sent crews to help out here as well.

We have conflicting reports of six/seven deaths. This is a sad report:

(AP / MUNSTER, Ind.) — A father and son drowned in northwest Indiana while trying to rescue children from a flooded ditch as heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ike forced hundreds of evacuations across the Midwest on Sunday.

Time/CNN

The Oh/Ky damage was reported in the same Time/CNN article:

Strong winds prompted the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to evacuate it's control tower and cancel about 40 flights before resuming air traffic, airport spokesman Ted Bushelman said.

In Cincinnati, Findlay Market�the state's oldest public marketplace�and several adjacent buildings caught on fire. More than 542,000 Duke Energy customers were without electricity in southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky, officials said Sunday.

Time/CNN


But what I want to know is what are your gas prices like? They soared here yesterday, I spent $4.19. It's cheaper in California and Texas. And this after prices dropped under $93 a barrel. The national average is approx. $3.84 and gas prices in Texas is on average $3.85 a gal. and $3.60 in California! Since when is anything cheaper in California? Of course, the attorney general is promising to investigate any and all reports of gouging in Indiana as if that ever does any good. Prices will drop before he can even sharpen his pencil. Even President Bush said that gouging will not be tolerated in the wake of Ike....yeah, I feel better.

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National Gas Prices

We even had one gas station post $5.99 gal. just to scare customers away because they ran out of gas. That the heck?

WATERLOO, Ind. -- A gas station in northeastern Indiana wanted to scare customers away after it ran out of gas, so employees posted a price of $5.99 a gallon for regular unleaded

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Well, I hate to gripe in the midst of so much destruction, but it's just another example of people getting taken advantage of when disasters like this happens. But my thoughts are most definitely with everyone as they continue to clean up from this.

Rush

reply to post by LateApexer313


Great thread here. I read through the whole thread and hope everyone in these areas are still fairing ok.

Here in Northern Ontario we never get serious weather, so I would not know what you're going through.

I found a little piece on cnn.com about your area but still not enough about this devastation is being told.

cnn.com

reply to post by hsur2112


Yes I am fine, So the MSM finally puts some blurbs up about the situation up here! Gas was $4.22 a gallon when I finally got some yesterday, after the 2 mile lines finally died down yesterday afternoon....

This is the BP station near my house I told you about Rush that I went to last night...good thing I gassed up huh?



www.local12.com...

Hey LA. I reminded hubby to gas up before he headed over that way today.....yes....he went. Do ya have any limbs he can stop by and pick up?

Rush

reply to post by Rhain


Hi Rhain,

Yes but we were so lucky compared to the people in Texas and Louisiana, at least all of our houses are still mostly intact, just missing shingles and gutters and siding, or at worst, a tree in a living room.

Like I said, this is the first time any of us this far North got to experience anything close to what an actual hurricane is like. Scary stuff!

Gas hasn't shot up much in my area of KY. I'm in the Lexington area and gas is still $3.86.

I went down to visit my family in Knoxville over the weekend though, and the cheapest we could find gas there was $4.99. Of course that area has their gas supplied from TX where the pipes were shut down.

But not much change where I live.

reply to post by nyk537


That's not bad. Ours is starting to drop back down to just under $4.00 now.

Rush

Ok, I got the video off my camera. I could have sworn I recorded more footage though. Probably because I started slamming beers and relaxing in the storm.

Its hard to see, but there are whole corn stalks flying through the air. The damage to the surrounding houses was pretty crazy. Almost every house had large amounts of siding ripped off. The tree you see in my front yard survived, but many were ripped right in half.

It doesn't look like much, but we don't get winds like this very often if ever around here. I should have gone aroud and shown some of the houses and their missing siding. Note, I took this video right when the power went out and dint realize at the time the amount of damage this was causing. I only recorded it because it wasn't normal weather for this area.









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More than 3,600 still in the dark

Source

NY got a little taste to.

I don't know if it was unexpected or under estimated..but I don't think anyone expected what came through..

Even tho there were some wind advisories that stated 30mph winds with 50-55 gusts...I went outside for a while and was easily thrown around my street for a few minutes before going back inside..more like 40-45 with 60-65 gusts where I was...we don't have any weather station where I live, closest is Fort Drum I think...anyways, not as bad as some of you guys..good luck to everyone

The remnants of the storm that blew through the area Monday morning cut power to more than 100,000 customers in Central New York.

reply to post by Dronetek


Awesome video Dronetek,

That was like it was here as well, for HOURS, with gusts up to 75 mph, wrought iron tables were blown away....I had had a few beers while watching the Bengal's game And when the power went out, I was helping a friend chase down her whole screened-in porch, the screens were ripped out completely, cushions, furniture went flying, we were chasing them down the street and dodging shingles that were raining down from all the houses. We collected box fulls of shingles from her yard and driveway!

I live in the akron area and there are about 20,000 still without power and about 10,000 without power and they are stating it might not be on for another 3-5 days.

In our county we sent about 150-200 workers to help out in texas. I think that is good, they need more help. It is just that our infrastructure(spelling) is not set up for 70 mph winds even though we get "bizzards" the winds generally do not get that high.

We just should be glad this did not happen during the winter months in Ohio.

-Thanks
-Aaron