has there been a hurricane in ohio?
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no hurricanes come to Ohio because theres no oceans around Ohio, but the after affects of hurricane Katrina reached Ohio
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No, they are far more powerful than we are currently.\n\nI have started a Weather Blog in Yahoo 360 which has a 'live link' that is marvelous showing the entire hurricane area of the USA and Carribean.\n\nYou will find it especially valuable when hurricane season starts, but it is impressive right now.\n\nGo to the blog and then look at Blog Roll URLs on the left near the bottom.\n\nMuch other useful weather information there and to come.\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana
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Having been in the path of a direct hit by Hurricane Claudette on July 15, 2003, I have to say that I'm not so sure about hanging around for something like that again.  The house I live in made it through Hurricane Carla in 1961 packing winds (COMING ASHORE) of 165 mph.  I now figure if it's barely a hurricane of say 74-80 mph, a category one, I will probably stay.  That doesn't mean I won't be scared as hell, but something of that size going North or South of here isn't going to cause me to leave.  We were blindsided by Hurricane Claudette sneaking up the coast overnight and caught EVERYBODY "with their pants down" so to say.  That was probably the scariest thing I've ever been witness to in my 43 years on this planet.  The wind was screaming past my front door right at 100 mph.  Had I known that was on the way we would have got the hell out of here.  One tornado took out huge trees right next door, while I only had to replace about five shingles.  That tornado went right over the house while I was putting all 240 pounds of me on the front door trying to close it.  The whistling was like screaming banshees.  The wind was howling.  I mean literally howling.  It still scares me to think about it. For most of my life I wondered what it would be like to ride out a hurricane.  Now I know.  Will I leave or ride it out?  Chances are pretty good I'm outta here.  Many "old-timers" and idiots thought they could ride out another hurricane.  Many of those "old-timers" and idiots didn't make through to tell us all about it.  Don't be an idiot.  Listen to your common sense and watch the advisories.  If this message helps to save your life or someone else's, then I haven't typed this in vain.  Good luck.
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Last year the panhandle was badly affected by Hurricanes, as well as Miami and the Keys.  The Keys would probably be the most often hit in history.
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Yes, we have floods, but I can't think of any tornadoes of any significance, ever. We also have earthquakes.
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I've lived through two blizzards and one hurricane, not, obviously, in the same location. The blizzards occurred while I was living in Buffalo, NY, where I was raised though not born (ironically, I was born in California; and yes, my parents were criminally insane!). The hurricane struck here in Annapolis, MD.\n\nThe first and most notorious was the infamous Blizzard of '77 which struck while I was in grade school. The good part was that my siblings and I were stranded safely at home with neither parent able to make it back for several days. Fun and anarchy defined! We also had one full week off school. Thank you, Jesus!\n\nThe bad part was that 29 people died amidst sub-freezing temperatures, 70 mph sustained winds (not gusts, kids) and snow drifts as high as 30 feet (not inches, kids). In short, it was an event. Alas, it also established Buffalo's (mostly) undeserved national reputation as a frozen wasteland and made it fodder for (lame-ass) weather jokes to the present day. My response? Buffalonians are survivors, folks! We're made of far sterner stuff than most of the rest of you and we never hesitate to help people in need. If I had a dollar for every time I shoveled someone's driveway, sidewalk, porch steps, et al, or for every time I pushed someone's car out of a snowbank, or every time someone assisted me or mine in doing same, I would be a very rich man indeed. God bless you Buffalo!\n\nThe second was the Blizzard of '85, from which I barely (to say nothing of bravely, boldly and rather stupidly) escaped being stranded in the city. It wasn't nearly as bad as its more famous predecessor ("only" 33 inches of snow and sustained winds of 60 mph) but I was fortunate to have left work at just the right time to safely deliver two co-workers, who were afraid to drive but even more afraid to be stranded downtown, to their respective homes. I pulled into my driveway just before the sheriff's order was issued banning all unnecessary vehicular traffic. Nice.\n\nThere was also a '93 "Superstorm" that fell just short of blizzard status because the winds were not sustained at over 30mph, though it was plenty bad. Anyone detecting a pattern here ('77, '85, '93)? Oddly enough, 2001 wasn't too bad, or so my friends tell me, as I'd departed for good in 1996.\n\nThe hurricane occurred here in Annapolis, MD, within a fortnight of my triumphant return from two years in Japan as an English language teacher. Hurricane Isabel did what no hurricane had done in nearly 50 years: it tracked its merry way right up the Chesapeake Bay and seemingly targeted poor, wee, historic Annapolis, which was decidedly NOT prepared for such an unwelcome visitor. In the process, Isabel, packing sustained winds of 100 mph, created the largest storm surge in Annapolis history (7.6 feet), flooding much of downtown Annapolis and surrounding neighbourhoods. Sadly, several businesses never recovered, including one owned by a family friend. I believe the final death toll was 43 but most of them were in Virginia, not Maryland.\n\nAs for myself, I was lucky enough to have left work early (again) and made it safely home before it got really nasty. We lost a lot of trees in my neighbourhood but emerged almost completely unscathed in terms of home damage. Even more amazingly, although 350,000 neighbours were without electricity for days after the storm, I literally lost power for a split second during its peak but otherwise remained intact for the duration. Surveying the landscape with a neighbour the following morning was, I confess, surreal. At one point I turned to him and said, tongue firmly planted in cheek, "Crikey, Bill, it looks as if a hurricane hit this place, doesn't it?" ;)\n\nP.S. I also endured at least two earthquakes while living in Japan, but neither was very serious. Mind you, that was the first time in my life I felt the bed moving independent of any assistance o
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I saw a tornado in '90 when I lived out in Indiana - was the loudest noise I ever heard and I never want to hear again.  The sky was all weird too - a greenish-black.  As a native new englander I was pretty freaked out.\n\nI've been in a few hurricanes here in CT worst being Gloria in 1985.  The wind gets bad.. trees bent all the way to the ground..rain lashing against the house.  Then you get an eerie calm period in the eye and it starts all over again.  Luckily we don't get them as bad as the south.. I really feel for them!  Did a lot of damage.. had no power for a week.  Trees were broken, houses damaged severely.  I was out of high school for a week because all the electrical lines to the school were torn out.  \n\nI have been through more than my share of Nor'Easters too (snow storm indigenous to New England that pulls moisture from the Atlantic and brings it in from the northeast).  I've seen Nor'easters that have dumped 2-3 feet of snow in one shot.
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I've seen several funnel clouds, those are an awesome and chilling sight. By the time you notice them they're pretty well-formed. Almost all of them last a few seconds and either dissipate or roll back up into the sky. We were actually involved with a real tornado three years ago, It was an F1-F2 that stayed on the ground for almost thirty miles. I heard  the siren go off in the next town, we got the kids and the dogs in the basement. My wife and I kept going outside and looking around for something more threatening than the usual oncoming thunderstorm. After about 10 minutes we heard the freight train coming and headed downstairs. The house shook enough that the dust came down from the rafters. It lasted less than thirty seconds and then a whole lot of rain came down. The tornado missed us by 200 yards. The telephone pole in the corner of my back yard was okay, the one next to it was torn out of the ground and thrown across the road. The one next to that was torn out and thrown a hundred yards. No one in my rural neighborhood was hurt, but they did wind up bulldozing and rebuilding three homes. The home across the street had the front porch torn off and thrown over the roof, exposing a large hole in the roof deck that let in enough rain to collapse most of the ceilings. The path of damage was maybe a half-mile wide. Homes outside that range did not see much damage. I was surprised that the wind was toward the tornado, not away from it. The funnel was enough of a low-pressure point to draw the air towards it at a hundred-and-some miles an hour. The broken trees have repaired themselves, the homes and farms have been rebuilt, The only lasting reminder is a lot of sheets of tin barn roof still wrapped around treetops. We're in Northern Ohio. Moderate tornado damage is at least a yearly event in the area. Huge destructive disastrous storms like they get in the plains are a rarity.
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only been to one.. Virginia.. nothing great... i guess i like Florida the best.. but it has to many hurricanes...
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its a giant storm  like a hurricane thats been going on for a logn time bout size of earth i think
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Try this:   \n\nhttp://www.ohioinsurance.gov/Complaints/ComplaintMain.htm
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Try the National Hurricane Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ - there's tons of good information on this site.
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Yes, we put up window protection and keep flashlights, batteries, etc. on hand.  We have a gas grill we can cook on after the storm passes, and a generator. A really good link to guide you in preparations is http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/storm/getready/.\n\nFlorida is having a sales tax break for hurricane supplies May 21 - June 1.
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I live in Houston, Tx. I have worked in Miami, and all over Florida. Hurricanes come through Miami even more often then Houston. Most of the ones that go through Florida, or the panhandle are smaller categories that may not threated many human lives, but can be a nightmare on property. Not too long ago i got a chance to meet a lot of Katrina evacuees, as well as going through the scare of Rita just a few weeks after. It is horrifying to see some of the effects these things can have on entire cities, and even states. Do not listen to everything they say on TV, for it is just a depiction of the worse possible, whether it is scenario, or what actually happened. Miami is so beautiful, that you will enjoy yourself, and the possibility of Hurricanes will only be a small memory compared to everything else you will experience there. Enjoy\nElis\nHouston, TX
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yes\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_re_us/new_england_flooding;_ylt=AgDzbrtV57Qm6iRL7_1kSiCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\nthis was my current event
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YES, there are, but your biggest concern would still be tornados!  Back in the late summer/early fall of 2000 there was one in Amarillo.  That was the first time I had ever "felt" one.  My brother and I were sitting on the couch and it felt like someone started shaking it!  It was very brief, but everyone in our apt building opened their doors and were asking "did you feel that??  was that a.... NO WAY!"  Since then, there have been smaller ones here and there that are getting a bit of media coverage, like the one in Dumas, but not that entense or frequent.  Now I'm no geologist, but Amarillo DOES sit on top of an underground mountain range, so that might contribute.  The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, which every school kid is like REQUIRED to go to on at least 3 field trips in their lives, has an exhibit on it.  Pretty interesting.
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I didn't, but I was in high school in Columbus, an hour from there.  I went to Xenia to see what it then looked like a year later.\n\nIf you'd like to look up more about the Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974, go to these sites:\n\nhttp://www.april31974.com/index.html\nhttp://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/extremes/1999/april/extremes0499.ht