The biggest storm I ever encountered

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(06-02-2015, 12:21 PM)Johnny Cupcakes Wrote: There was a pretty wild wind storm in the Midwest in 2008. Cincinnati was hit particularly bad, and during a Bengals game to make matters worse. I remember the television at Bar Louie bring frozen on Cedric Benson's face for 15 minutes or so before power actually went out. That night, trees were down everywhere and almost no one had power. A buddy of mine lives in Cheviot and we decided that a bonfire and beer were the way to go....it seems like the whole street did. We stocked up on booze and found the only place to eat that was open (a little caeser's). We ordered 4 or the last 5 pizzas and ended up giving one away to a man and his young son because they didn't make the cut.

I was living in Finneytown at the time and we didn't have power for 8 days. I was working at Larosas and everything in the freezer was going to be trashed. My manager at the store split all the beers in the store 4 ways if me and two other guys helped empty the freezer of food to save it from spoiling. We ended up with about 100 beers each and all got super drunk in the dining room.

Hurricane Ike. We were hosting Tennessee and (if memory serves) losing pretty badly in the 4th quarter when they flashed a message on the south PBS scoreboard that I-75 northbound was closed. We decided to leave and came through downtown trying to make it over to 71. Just like everybody else. Traffic was snarled, and the wind was rocking the car as we sat in this canyon of buildings. There was a USA Today box on the sidewalk next to us, and I thought the wind was going to pull it right out of the concrete.

71 and 275 were both packed, and as we sat in traffic, road construction signs were being ripped out and were flying everywhere. When I finally got home all of Dayton was without power. I listened to SNF on an emergency radio, while outside in the stillness I could hear neighbors walking around and chatting with one another. The juice finally came back on about 3:30 the next afternoon. Guess I can't complain seeing as you had 8 days without power.