This is a winter wonderland?
At least we are warming up and most of the snow is going away. The ice is what took us out this time. Everything froze and just weighed everything down.
Net seems more stable and the cable is working at my place. About a thousand residents are still without power here, but that is being worked on. Cleanup of all the trees will take awhile, but it will get caught up before long. There is going to be some extensive wiring done all over town to get everything back up on the poles where they should be.
So much for round number one. We usually have two or three rounds of this before winter finally settles in and the snow stays, just getting deeper as more comes down. Then eventually the thaw comes and brings flooding with it. But the between good rounds of winter we have rain, freezing, snow, thaw, freezing, snow, back and forth that destroys pavement, crumbles brick, ruins roofing, rips off gutters, and all kinds of other associated crap. We were lucky this time. We did not get the usual high winds we tend to around here or even more extensive damage would have occurred.
A little burgh just East of us, East Palestine, is still mostly without power. In the next County over, they estimate 10,000 people are still without power. Fire departments, Schools, Churches, etc have opened up as warming stations for people without heat and places are offering food for those with no way to cook.
All this damage, and this was just a little taste of winter in Ohio. If nature runs its usual course, it surely will not be a nice winter. We always tend to have winter fatalities due to cold by itself not counting traffic crashes and the other numerous ways folks seem to come up with to off themselves.
I hate winter in Ohio.
