I have alot of tree limbs to pick up, my plastic wrapped patio is destroyed, it's cold and snowy off and on, but otherwise o.k.
We had 2 F2 tornados in the vicinity on Wednesday night. Tore up Wooster and New Philadelphia some what.
From our paper today:
Two days of punishing storms and high winds in Ohio gave way to calmer weather Friday as the tornado cleanup continued in several northeast Ohio communities.
In the hardest-hit community, Wooster (30 miles West of me), damage was estimated to exceed $15.5 million.
Several thousand people still without electricity in the Wooster area may not get power back until Saturday, said John Wise, Wayne County Disaster Services chief.
At the peak of the storms late Wednesday, about 375,500 customers lost power across northern Ohio.
Investigators confirmed a tornado downed trees and power lines and damaged the roof of a Rubbermaid plant in Wooster on Wednesday, injuring seven people. Wooster is located 50 miles south of Cleveland.
The tornado with winds of 110 to 130 mph was on the ground for about 12 miles, said meteorologist Mark Adams with the weather service in Cleveland.
Another tornado that hit Lexington Township near Alliance (15 miles East of me), about 50 miles southeast of Cleveland, had winds of 75 to 100 mph and damaged a few homes and a school.
Charles Massaro, 47, said the tornado in Wooster ?sounded like 20 freight trains in surround sound.?
?My heart was beating about 800 miles per hour. It was terrifying, Armageddon-like. I kept thinking ? this is it. I?m done,? he said Thursday.
Eric Vizzo, 26, was one of the residents hit hard by the tornado. His home?s chimney caved in, windows and doors were blown out, the roof flew off and there was debris that he didn?t recognize.
?I don?t know who all this stuff belongs to. Maybe those gutters are ours, but they could belong to some of our neighbors,? he said. ?I found our flagpole, but I have no idea where our flag is.?
Winds up to 50 mph persisted Thursday and caused problems for courier Bill Weiss in Cleveland.
?It?s rough,? the 70-year-old said as he held an envelope close to his chest to shield it from the wind off Lake Erie. ?It?s not as bad as my next one where I have a heavy box. That won?t be a fun thing.?
Several boats capsized in rough water at the Edgewater marina in Cleveland. ?They should have gotten them out of there already,? said state ranger Jim Fishbach.
Temperatures tumbled in Cleveland from a high Wednesday of 68 degrees to 39 by early Thursday and stayed in the 30s all day.
Bonnie
