Here are the two most recent news broadcasts as well as pictures from WHAS:
It could take up to two weeks to restore power to all homes and businesses in the Louisville area...that's the latest word from LG&E. The damage was even more severe than first reported. Power was knocked out to more than 300,000 homes and businesses during the height of the storm. That number is now down to around 200,000.
The damage is severe. LG&E says about 75% of its customers were left without power. There are 3,000 wires down and nearly 150 broken utility poles. With so many crews from other states helping out along the Gulf Coast, outside help won't be available right away. Kentucky crews have been called back from the area and will be in place by Wednesday.Statewide, power was knocked out to 550,000 homes and businesses (that includes the Louisville outages). Duke Energy had 90% of its 155,000 customers in northern Kentucky without power. Governor Beshear calls it the worst outage in the state's history. The total number of outages has been cut in half and now stands at around 275,000.
The Louisville Office of the National Weather Service says the winds that pounded Kentuckiana on Sunday were a direct result of the remnants of Hurricane Ike.
Scientifically, this phenomenon resulted from very strong winds around 3000-6000 feet above the ground. A low-level jet associated with and ahead of the remnants of Ike, being directed downward to the surface as surface heating (due to some sunshine) resulted in temperatures decreasing rapidly. That allowed winds aloft to mix down to the surface causing the strong, damaging wind gusts. This phenomenon typically is common with severe thunderstorms, although in this case, there were no thunderstorms at all associated with the strong winds.
3 comments:
Glad to hear you guys are okay! That looks like tornado damage-I guess that is what a tropical depression does. You can blame me, I prayed for Ike to not affect us, so instead he visited my sister-in-law and my friends up there. lol...Sorry!
I'm happy you guys had power. We've heard from several families with babies that have had to go live with relatives for a few days. Our power was among the first of those to go out Sunday morning while we were at church, and it just came back on around 1030 last night!
I am so sorry to hear you all were hit so badly. St. Louis got hit on Sunday. Fortunately, we personally had no damage, but there was extensive flooding and wind damage all around the city in other communities. Alison and Gary lost power, and came over. She had to do her week's laundry here because she worked at her school's booth in a local festival on Saturday, and had no time to do it then. There were even three storm-related deaths in our area. I am glad you are OK, but sorry about all of the damage to your parent's home. Our prayers go out to all of you.
Marie and Tom
Post a Comment