The lights came back on for about 4,000 Lakewood residents on Thursday. The rest are still waiting.
The power came back on for 4,000 Lakewood residents on Thursday. However, there are still nearly 10,000 residents in the dark. And, in Lakewood, they may be waiting a few more days — some until Monday night, according to the FirstEnergy website. There were 9,459 residents without power on Thursday night, according to an outage map. That’s down from more than 13,000 the night before. “We started gaining ground on Wednesday,” said Mayor Michael Summers, who spent much of the week stopping at the scenes of outages. “The biggest gains are the infrastructure repair.” The only road that remained closed was Lake Road, between Cove and Nicholson avenues, where electric company crews set up a long row of elevated lifts to repair downed lines. …
Natural foods grocery store donates truckloads of food to American Red Cross emergency shelter, St. Augustine Hunger Center and other residents in need.
When the power went out at Nature’s Bin, the clock started ticking on the shelf-life of the food in the store. As the hours became days, officials at the natural foods grocery store made a decision to donate food that may perish. In all, during the past few days, Nature’s Bin donated nearly 2,000 pounds of food —worth an estimated $10,000 — to several organizations including a Cleveland hunger center and the American Red Cross emergency shelter at Garfield Middle School. “At least it went to a good cause,” said Scott Duennes, the executive director of Nature’s Bin. He said that the frozen food “held its temperature” for about 24 hours after the store lost power at around 5 p.m. Monday. “Once it started to get soft we had to give it a new …
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Pattie
1:35 pm on Sunday, November 11, 2012
It's a lot different putting up without power when the weather is warmer. My house got down to 50. I ended up sick because I stayed home thinking everyday surely our power would go on. I am not complaining about the linemen I am complaining about First Energy. I pay a lot for my power and their response time was irresponsible. more ›