[GranTorino]

Feel your pain.
Hard to think about anything else.
Of course, Ike was the last hurricane to damage Ohio.
Probably be different if I was close to the path.

[knarf]

And after the second year of spending MY money to PREpare, REpair and otherwise expend money and energy midlanders don't . . . I'd be seriously looking for another location.

The USA is the most magnificent piece of real estate on God's earth and I don't read in my Bible that I should live where I'm going to get continually beat up . . . turn my cheek, yeah . . . sure . . . but STAY there ?

Don't think so