Work and my place were unaffected, including my dilapidated shed that looks like it will fall down any minute. Not sure how it is still standing. Other places weren't so lucky.

We basically had hurricane force winds come through in several places in Columbus. I was at home when it hit, looking out my window, and all of a sudden it was this rushing wall of rain and water coming at me, practically drowning out visibility. I jumped into my windowless bathroom real quick because I wasn't sure what it was going to do!

Some pictures that others have taken from places around here that I'm familiar with:





This one I thought was a little amusing since there wasn't really much damage here


My parents house is fine. They did lose half a tree (split in half at a Y in the trunk) but it only fell in the yard and did no other damage. Plenty of branches down but nothing serious. They've been without utility power for 18 hours now but they have a home standby generator which has kept everything important online.