As some of you may have heard, the midwest was all in shambles this weekend. Early Sunday morning, Oxford, OH started experiencing some very high winds of around 60 mph. This went on all day knocking down several trees and cutting out all power. Apparently we were not the only ones. 580,000 people in Cincinnati were without power along with much of Dayton and even Columbus. Apparently these were winds from the recent hurricane. Now it is Tuesday and the power just came back on this morning! It was quite the adventure these past few days as students have been scrounging for food, drink and cash. The only food place open in town for a while was a brick oven pizza joint that of course could only take cash! Monday the president actually cancelled school. The last time this happened was back in 1970 when students flushed toilets and ran showers at the same time to deplete the towns water supply in some kind of protest. Even though half of the town is still without power, the University's generator is up and running and classes were held today. Students without power were very unhappy with this decision and a huge stand in was held at President Hodge's house last night. (We later found out he was out of town). But anyway, I am happily sitting now in my lit house on my charged computer!
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