Troy Anderson

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  Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Anderson said they continue to push for a better timeline to have service back to residents.Crews restored power to Uniopolis residents Tuesday night, but Anderson hopes power is restored to portions of Fryburg and New Hampshire later today. He said originally power was expected to be back to the areas within three days after the remnants of Hurricane Ike, which was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved inward, and a cold front collided over the area Sunday afternoon."Our hands are tied here in the county until DP&L gives us an answer," Anderson said.
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  Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Anderson said they continue to push for a better timeline to have service back to residents.Crews restored power to Uniopolis residents Tuesday night, but Anderson hopes power is restored to portions of Fryburg and New Hampshire later today. He said originally power was expected to be back to the areas within three days after the remnants of Hurricane Ike, which was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved inward, and a cold front collided over the area Sunday afternoon."Our hands are tied here in the county until DP&L gives us an answer," Anderson said.There are no shelters open in the county, he said.

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  Troy Anderson, Director

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  It's a slow process, a lot slower than I would like," said Troy Anderson, director of the Auglaize County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

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  Troy Anderson, Deputy Director and CERT Coordinator

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  Auglaize County Homeland Security Director Troy Anderson said he knows the rules have been discussed, but he not seen anything specific yet in writing."The move for this started after 9/11, so some of it is linked to that, but it's not all about terrorists," Anderson said."A lot of it can also be linked back to the last year and a half to two years and the illegal immigration problems, and as a way to protect citizenship for all U.S. residents from identity theft.""I think it's a good idea," Anderson said.

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  Auglaize County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Anderson said Sunday's top wind gust in the county topped out between 62 to 65 mph sometime between 3 and 6 p.m.Anderson said there were numerous calls of downed trees and poles, but he added three buildings still under construction, still only stick built were blown down. "They way it is looking now the most damaged parts were Cridersville, Wapakoneta, St. Johns and those areas," Anderson said."The winds were coming out of the west then the southwest and then the north."Anderson said scores of trees and limbs fell during the winds, as did power lines across the county.As of press time, a portion of eastern Auglaize County was still without electric service."A few new construction buildings collapses," Anderson said."For the most part, most of the damage we are seeing is a lot of crop damage on corn — that's all bent over."Anderson said outages in St. Johns and the Uniopolis areas can be traced back to troubles with electricity provide Dayton Power and Light.As of press time, 180,000 of its customers were without power.Anderson blamed the wind storm on a combination of Hurricane Ike pushing into the country's midsection as well as an incoming cold front.When the two fronts met, high winds were the result."The best thing for us was that we didn't have any precipitation to hamper safety or visibility," Anderson said.

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  Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director Troy Anderson said the county received between 8 and 9 1/2 inches of snow this weekend, with the heaviest amounts falling in Wapakoneta, Uniopolis and Waynesfield."It was close to what was expected," Anderson said.
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  Despite blizzard warnings for Auglaize County and several surrounding counties, Anderson said conditions did not amount to a blizzard in the end. "There wasn't the heavy snow, the large flakes, the solid 40- to 55-mile per hour winds all night that come out of a blizzard," Anderson said."If we had continued to get snow like Columbus, which got 20 inches, it would have been blizzard conditions , south of Sidney seemed to be the line."He said the last big snowstorm, around Valentine's Day 2007, was worse as the snow came quicker and wind caused more drifting.
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  Anderson said the problem now is what happens to all the snow when it melts.Each inch of snow produces approximately 1.5 inches of water when it melts."If you take that ratio times the 9 inches we got, on top of the ice we already had, with the ground already saturated and possibly some snow today and rain by the end of the week, there's a good chance for some major flooding, worse than what we just went through," Anderson said."That flood (Feb. 7) happened after 5 or 6 inches of rainfall, we're exceeding that amount with just what we have on the ground, any additional rain is just going to compound that," he said.

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  "On the semi, we were able to talk to the driver and calculate how much fuel he had, but the car also had a ruptured gasoline tank," EMA Director Troy Anderson told the Wapakoneta Daily News in a telephone interview this morning."The biggest concern was a storm sewer catch basin located about 2 feet from the car ... and anything going into it could get into the Auglaize River."Also with the gasoline vapors, we didn't want anything there that might become an explosive hazard," he said.Anderson said officials were able to stop the spill from flowing into the catch basin using absorbent padding.They remained on the scene until approximately 8:30 p.m.A crew from Allied Environment of Lima also responded to the scene after it was cleared and dug approximately 10 inches of soil out of the 20- by 40-foot area where the vehicles ssat. The crew plans to purge the soil so it can be re-used and re-sod the area after the snow is removed, Anderson said.

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  Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Anderson said they continue to push for a better timeline to have service back to residents.Crews restored power to Uniopolis residents Tuesday night, but Anderson hopes power is restored to portions of Fryburg and New Hampshire later today. He said originally power was expected to be back to the areas within three days after the remnants of Hurricane Ike, which was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved inward, and a cold front collided over the area Sunday afternoon."Our hands are tied here in the county until DP&L gives us an answer," Anderson said.

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  "People out there can't hear it."His wasn't the only concern addressed with the system, Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Anderson said he was concerned about the approximately 8-minute delay between the National Weather Service issuing a tornado warning last week and sirens sounding in the county. "We're trying to improve that delay," Anderson said. The delay happened sometime between the National Weather Service issuing the warning and it getting entered into the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) in Columbus, Anderson said. LEADS serves as the electronic communication network for Ohio's criminal justice system and is used by law enforcement, courts and prosecutors across the state to inquire information about driving records and licenses, vehicle ownership, outstanding warrants, past criminal history and parole status, among other items, such as weather or missing person alerts."If LEADS is down, which sometimes it is, there's going to be a delay in getting one of the primary ways of warning people out," Anderson said."We're trying to work with the state to see what we can do better."Anytime you have to rely on a computer system there are going to be problems," he said."But if you sat down that night and listened, we sent out our warning right away and then there was a several minute delay."Anderson said until Wednesday's meeting he was not aware of any concerns with sirens in Wapakoneta, which already has five sirens, all purchased by the city.He said an older siren by the new Wapakoneta Waterpark should transmit within a 2 1/2-mile radius, which includes that section of Bellefontaine Street.
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  Anderson said that meant most of the people on Bellefontaine Street at that time probably wouldn't have heard them anyway."Pretty much everybody in the county has sirens now," Anderson said, saying St. Johns was the lone village or municipality not having anything to use as a siren as far as he knew.State grants could help pay for 50 percent funding of a siren, which costs approximately $20,000, but the grants are competitive among all 88 counties based on population and other factors. "To me, if you have a ballpark or an outdoor sporting venue, a place where a lot of people might be out and about anytime it's warm, it's a good idea to have something," Anderson said.
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  Anderson said in the case of last week's funnel cloud reports, a warning was issued for the entire county initially and then made more specific as more details became available to make sure anyone who needed warned was. Warning sirens have to be reset every 3 minutes by dispatchers because they aren't made to run continuously anymore, Anderson also explained. "If they run past 3 minutes they'll overheat and burn up," Anderson said.

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