The remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through Columbus yesterday knocking out power to much of the city. Gusts of 75mph ripped off branches and uprooted entire trees during a five-hour span. It was pretty scary, to tell you the truth. I didn’t experience a hurricane while I lived in Florida, but I got my first taste here in Ohio. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for those in Texas who braved through sustained 100+ mph winds.

Glenn DeMott helps cut fallen limbs out of Denise Worthington’s Upper Arlington front yard on Sept. 15.

While walking to a friend’s house, Chad Mayhorn, 23, of Westerville stops to record a webcam video of a downed powerline and tree that fell on a car in the middle of Highway 161 in Worthington on Sept. 15.

While playing in Monterey Park on Sept. 15, Kornelijus Lesniauskas, 4, and his brother Emilius, 2, push their toys under a downed tree caused by wind damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ike that blew through town on Sept. 14.

I still don’t have electricity, so I’m posting as I’m getting ready to leave work. I think we’re going to make a campfire in our back yard and roast hotdogs and make smores for dinner. Hopefully the power will be back on before breakfast. The lines at McDonalds were ridiculous this morning. No one really saw this coming, so we were all caught unprepared.