TOLEDO -- Local charities set up emergency shelters to help families affected by the power outtages created by Sunday's snow and ice storm. Jerry Goodfriend and his son Evan spent the night at the Red Cross emergency shelter set up at the West Toledo YMCA. "It was not like the Grand Hotel but they had cots and it was warm and people brought food,". But at around 11a.m. the electricity at the YMCA was lost. Families in the area who were coming to the facility to get a hot shower turned around when told that power had been lost. Goodfriend and his son decided to go home to try and use their generator, but to no avail. "I was trying to start up the generator but it wasn't working for us; we hadn't started it in about ten years," By Tuesday afternoon Toledo Edison reported that there were still about 16,000 homes without power. Consumer Energy reported that there were about 19,000 homes in Lenawee County in the dark and 10,400 homes in Monroe County without power.
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