Who's peeking out from under a stairway...

If you click on these, you can get a closer look. This house around the corner lost a tree and it fell just within inches of the front porch. Why it didn't fall on the roof god and his ilk only know:

This tree is in front of a fraternity near Otterbein College. I think it looks like it is on an elbow trying to get up. The guys were standing around it later offering it as a jungle gym for money :):

This is at Otterbein Cemetery

This home is closeby and fortunately their deck caught it so the tree didn't crash into their roof. But too bad that they lost their pretty gardens, trees, deck and cover:

This is two streets over. I'd show you the tree that fell across our street, but our city workers actually removed it DURING the storm (Tireless and vigilant workers for days on end):

Right next to this street is our lovely nook called Hannah Mayne Park. To get there you used to cross a little walking bridge. The sycamore you can see on the right of the bridge lost it's top third:

Most people don't know how the midwest was affected by Ike, the hurricane that hit Galveston and Houston. We, ofcourse aren't suffering here, but the Columbus school system and many businesses have been shut down all week and over 100,000 people are still without power. I live in Westerville, which deservedly prides itself separate from Columbus; not even as a suburb, but it's own village. We have our own electric, water, etc... so our power was on within just hours and most people here within just a few days. Because our city workers are stellar. Yeah, a little hubris after a big storm, it happens. No one here was injured or killed, luckily; but there is still a lot of damage and we've lost a lot of trees.

(not editing any of this. I'm sick of dealing with blogger today)

Hi Douglas: