We’re not always so lucky.
This week in 2008, a windstorm from Hurricane Ike hit the state.
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Six Ohioans died as a result of the windstorm. Counties south of Interstate 70 were hardest hit, with the worst damage around Cincinnati, Dayton and central Ohio.
“Ike wound up being more of a dry remnant of a hurricane as it moved in,” said Storm Center 7 Meteorologist McCall Vrydaghs. “We actually had sunny skies that day and warm temperatures. We got into the 80s, and then we had a cold front that pushed in and that forced a lot of instability and allowed some very strong upper level winds to get forced down to the ground in this dynamic setup.”
The storm knocked out power to 2 million customers... including some operations of the Dayton Daily News, Springfield News-Sun, Middletown Journal and Hamilton JournalNews (the last two papers later combined to form the Journal-News, one metro newspaper serving the residents of Butler County).
In fact, after the storm hit, the newspapers printed a combined version for days as operations returned to normal.
Here’s a look at the front pages after Ike clobbered the region:
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