did lancaster get hit with the high winds/storms?

[X8XOHIOLEGENDX7X]

does any 1 know if lancaster got hit real hard with the high winds and stuff? the reason im asking is my girlfreind lives their and she was spose to call tonight and did'nt and she has'nt been online. i know her grandpa is real sick but trying to thank positive and maybe that the winds meesed stuff up any 1 know?

[Philly]

They probably did. My son who lives in Cincinnati, called last night and said that the area he lived in was the only one that had electric. He said that there was about 600,000 without electric, and that it could take about 3 days to get it turned back on. He said that the gas staion that was by his house was the onlyone with gas in the area! Said he had to park across the street to walk over to the gas staion, to get some pop!! They had winds up to 70-75 miles per hour.....crazy!

[noreply66]

Logan had high winds with some trees down and a lot of limbs.
The Time/Warner was off for a while

[BubbleGumTiger]

from the Lancaster EagleGazette...........

http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/ap ... 50315/1002

[X8XOHIOLEGENDX7X]

this sucks i hope shes ok may try to make it up there today..

[ManitouDan]

my kid had fastpitch practice in lancaster yesterday, the wind around 4 pm was brutal---there were debris from the corn fields flying everywhere. Don't know how much damage actually occured. MD

[IronTigerMum]

We drove home from YSU in it yesterday. Mr. Mum had to fight to keep the car on the road, people pulled off everywhere, we dodged debris. Power out so no traffic lights, it was a mess....hope she is ok up there!

[X8XOHIOLEGENDX7X]

me too! she uses a cell phone . thats why i cant understand why she has'nt called maybe a tower is down. or maybe she ju8st cant charge it..

[Runner]

Lancaster did get hit very hard from what they were saying on the news last night.

Over half a million homes in Ohio are/is without electricity after the winds yesterday. Thats just the AEP report. There would be a lot moreif they add the co-op companies.

A good number of cell phone towers have been knocked out and calls cannot be made.

My daughter lives 8 miles from me and has been out since yesterday. They are saying it could take 7-10 days to get her electric restored. The power companies are working in the area where the majority of the outages are first, before going to the smaller outages.

[orange-n-brown 365]

LIMBS AND DEBRIS EVERYWHERE NO ELECTRIC MOST PLACES!! CELL SERVICE IS TERRIBLE THE AREA BY THE HOSPITAL HAD ELECTRIC ... I was talking to some people who said 4 days plus for electric.. wow... all the crews had been sent to IKE storm damage

[Runner]

wow... all the crews had been sent to IKE storm damage

The good thing is that they were ordered back to Ohio late Sunday afternoon. Our local crews drove all night and were back in town this morning. Some were sent home to sleep and others remained out to work and will switch off and on with each other.

[Derf]

Lancaster got hit hard. Yesterday most of the town was without power. I live about 5 miles out of town and was without power for 24 hours.

[X8XOHIOLEGENDX7X]

shes fine was without electric for a good while thnx all!