Joe Donatelli is the Digital Director at News 5 Cleveland.
As hundreds of thousands of Northeast Ohio ans continue to cope without electricity, warm water, access to their homes and other necessities, News 5 and the Scripps Howard Fund are teaming up Friday through Monday for a tornado and flood relief textathon to benefit the Red Cross .The Red Cross has been busy the last several days responding to requests for assistance, and News 5 ’s phones have been ringing with calls from viewers who lack access to basic needs like food and medicine.
Tuesday’s storm was the most powerful to hit Northeast Ohio since 1993 in terms of impact, and thousands of crews are still out in the field restoring power to hundreds of thousands of customers.RELATED: Thousands of crews working to restore power after Tuesday's storm, FirstEnergy saysIn the wake of Tuesday’s storm, a large swath of News 5’s southern viewing area was flooded by overnight storms early Friday morning.
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