The weather was fair and dry Tuesday and power returned sporadically to many Cuyahoga County suburbs. But yesterday was still a busy day for Melissa Rodrego, manager of the county's Emergency Management Agency. She spent the day assessing hard hit areas and coordinating groups that provide food and health services.
Rodrego said several hundred lunches and dinners have been distributed to residents in the county's urban areas.
Rodrego: Mostly food and water and snacks to residents of Cleveland and East Cleveland.
Deb Lancaster is interim emergency services director for the Red Cross serving Summit and Portage counties. She says she's been routing requests that come from individuals rather than municipalities.
Lancaster: There are resources available for people whether they go back for food stamps to replace what they've already used to fill up their freezer. Others can go to their insurance company to provide financial assistance for what they've lost.
Lancaster said the Red Cross also provides water, food and gives out emergency medical and mental referrals.
Many small businesses limped through two days of partial operation. Jim Carey owns a Lake County firm that conducts background investigations for corporations.
Carey: Fax machines were not working, we could not download reports via the internet.
Utility crews worked through the night trying to connect 1.4 Ohioans still without power Tuesday afternoon. And this morning the recovery is far from complete. State Farm, Ohio's largest insurer, will spend the next days and weeks sorting out nearly 9,000 reports it received since the storm.
Kymberli Hagelberg, 90.3.