ADA, Ohio -- Students at Ohio Northern University in Ada are setting up spare mattresses in the school's student center for folks who don't have any heat at home. Nearly all of the campus is without power. And the campus and town are littered with downed trees, power poles and electric lines, forcing classes to be canceled for today and tomorrow. University President Kendall Baker says emergency generators are keeping heat flowing inside a few of the dorms. Most of the 34-hundred students on campus are going home, but those staying are being moved into the dorms with heat. WTOL News 11 will have the latest with Reporter Joe Nugent at 5pm.
Meanwhile, in Carey and other parts of Wyandot County, the storm has left thousands of people in the cold as heavy ice knocked out trees and powerlines.
The American Electric Power Company says over 50,000 of their customers are without power today in a wide area of NW Ohio, including Carey, Upper Sandusky, Tiffin, Findlay and Lima. WTOL will bring you the latest tonight at 5 and 6pm.
WTOL's video of ice in Ada is here.
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