I'm busy with hurricane preparations. Ike is coming this way.
Remnants of Hurricane Ike tore through central Ohio, with its whipping winds knocking out electricity to hundreds of thousands of residents, some of whom might be without power for up to a week, an American Electric Power spokeswoman said last night...
Because of the massive number of outages, Franklin County school systems including Columbus, Bexley, Dublin, Gahanna-Jefferson, Grandview Heights, Hilliard, South-Western, Upper Arlington and Worthington closed schools for today. Westerville and Groveport Madison schools are on two-hour delays.
Gahanna Superintendent Gregg Morris said the winds tore off most of the roof of the multipurpose room of Blacklick Elementary School.
It was just one of scores of buildings damaged by ferocious winds that finally relented last night, but not until gusts of about 75 mph barreled through Port Columbus.
