The great thing about Ohio is we don't get all the "extreme" stuff everyone else gets.  Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, etc we don't get all that much.  Last night, we got some stupid high winds, so much it took down a lot of trees and totally screwed us in the power department.  The message @ AEP (my power company) said that it might be a week before power is restored...and I live near downtown!  We haven't had power since Sunday around 3pm.  Other bonus, one of the big trees finally let go directly across the street, putting a huge stress on the poles in the area.  Look for the big fork in the middle of the picture.

What's better, the guy's house it fell on -- JUST left for vacation last night.  One of the guys has already called him and there's not much he can do.  So, as a funny, we're going to send him this as a christmas card "from your !@#hole neighbors, Merry Christmas!" with a small caption of "you thought the wind took that tree down?"