Earth, Wind, and Fire.

It has ended up being a very eventful week. As most around this area have held witness to, a severe wind storm resulting from Hurricane Ike passed through the area on Sunday. It cause major power outages throughout the area. Schools in most areas have been out since Monday. My work has been down for the past two days, and is now limping along on generators to get a few core services on power. I heard Monday morning that 90% of Duke energy's customers were down.

Here are a few pics of the damage that I've been cleaning up. I've spent a lot of time behind a chainsaw.




Luckily we suffered little property damage, but others were not so lucky. I've seen a few trees that fell into houses, but did not have my camera on me at the time. There are numerous lines down due to fallen trees, which is the cause of our power outages.

Before the storms I bore witness to a house fire. I saw smoke coming from a house on the highway and turned around. Another person ended up beating me and called 911. After the fire trucks got there I was pretty much stuck as they shut the entire highway down. Here is the resulting aftermath:






Hopefully my next post will contain less destruction(other than the deCONstruction of the Engine of course).