Hurricane Ike strikes Ohio!

We are very fortunate as we did not sustain any damage to our house, cars, etc. Much of Central Ohio did not fare as well. There was only wind, not actually a storm. It was very weird. There are trees down everywhere and a lot of damage. The Governer has issued a state of emergency here and there are an estimated 1.5 million people without power. It could be up to a week before we have power again, but I tend to think it will be sooner for us. Meanwhile, school was cancelled nearly everywhere and they are already calling off school for tomorrow in some districts. Chris's employer had no electricity, so he gets to stay home with the kids today. I suspect they will have power by tomorrow and it will be back to work for him. No luck for me, however. My work did have electricity. So I scrounged for clean clothes and took my somewhat wrinkled butt to work! (If only I would have done the laundry before we lost power!)

Before we realized it wasn't the best time to play at the park, Gretyl and Kyle and I went to the park. Gretyl and I were loving the wind and thinking it was pretty neat. Kyle was the only smart one who begged us to leave immediately-lol. Wise beyond his years, that one. Before we left, however, I snapped this picture of Gretyl. She was hanging from this tree branch and the wind is blowing her body to the left. You can see her body is at an interesting slant.


We lost power shortly after we returned home. And thankfully, right before we were about to head out for a long overdue grocery shopping trip! Of course, thankful as I am that we didn't stock up on groceries that would go bad, I was at a loss as to what to do for dinner! Right or wrong we left the older two at home while we went out to get some food. With most groceries out of power in our area and all the open restaurants super-busy, we found ourselves at Whole Foods. Before they decided to close and boot everyone out of the store, Kyle discovered the fresh fish display (blegh!!!). He was very interested in them and asked the man if the largest one was a shark.
On a funny note, we were in such a hurry we didn't notice how Kyle had dressed himself. Kyle decided it would be fashionable to wear a sweatshirt with jean shorts and dress shoes--and one sock! Well school has been cancelled for tomorrow. They just called it off. Not shocking.