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We used to get these in April/May. Less intense. Now we’re getting them in summer with more humidity in the air.

 

Thankful I took the offer to be driven home from my shelter board meeting rather than biking. Would have beat it but it would have been stressful. I rode during the event last summer with the rotation and EF0 tornadoes out by O'Hare.

 

Also thankful that was less serious than last night's storms for the city.

 

Damn. You guys good up there? I’m 90mi SW and got the mildest part, barely any wind. Now it’s hitting my stepdads place in IN.

 

I got heavy winds and a lot of rain. Lots of down branches and powers out

 

Sat and watched the storm out of my window in Logan Square. Wild stuff! The night storms lately have been pretty cool except for all the destruction.

 

This is from last nights storm. Barry takes the best pictures of the city

 

Had to get acquainted with the bathtub in my apartment after Brandt Miller said strong rotation was coming right towards my neighborhood but fortunately does not look like much happened here

 

This was from Almost an hour ago

scary shit

 

My husband had to SHAKE me awake last night for our tornado warning (Grundy Co area) It’s normally the other way around and the storms wake me.. he said he could hear rumbles different from the thunder. We’re out in the cornfields but its not impossible that some kind of rotation was nearby and we just didn’t know.

We didn’t feel the earthquake either but reports said some in the area did. THE WORLD IS ENDING.

 

Why would you be out on a boat during all this weather lol

 

All of 55 is shutdown by Channahon, high tension power lines fell onto all the lanes.

They power the ExxonMobil plant…they just had to release a statement that there’s nothing they can do about the odor..they had to “release” from the flare stacks

 

The storm report from NWS Chicago is going to be wild.

 

We are moving to a new house on Saturday and we found out that the whole area doesn't have any electricity which caused the sump pump to stop working and caused the basement to get flooded into oblivion. Good thing we don't have anything there yet so if there's any water damage then it's only going to be to the floor/wall.

We did buy a backup battery system for the pump and the guy was supposed to install it over the weekend but didn't have time to do it

 

Ah fuck, that sucks. Those battery backups are important.

 

I won’t have power back until sometime between 3pm tomorrow and after 6pm Friday

 

(One day ago but I never knew this backstory and it's kind of cool)

 

Not sure I buy the story butyeah, 20 years. I remember it being behind schedule and people wondering how important it would be to Chicago. It's a huge benefit to us, even if it's some weird private-public partnership.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/books/review/lewis.html

 

The floosmoor to Thornton one was only a mile or so away from me. No wonder why we still don’t have power up

 

The one for the West Loop tornado is so uncanny. Never thought we'd see the day.

 

Damn! Glad I finally got to experience it in June after living here for 16 years.

 

The three being torn down have been blocked since the renovation. Others will remain with a view.