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wicked storm in Chi town....


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my powers out....Super large hail, 80 MP winds "life threatening winds" heading for you Chicago.

 

gotta shut down now before my battery back up croaks.

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I've been lucky so far. All the surrounding cities like Elgin, Crystal Lake, etc are looking real bad!

 

 

Yeah, we got a little wind and some rain out here in Oswego but that was it.

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I left work about 15 minutes agoe and am home with the family so we can face Armageddon together.

 

Geez, you make it sounds like you are in London in November 1940 :eek:

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I can't think of a day in the past few weeks that it hasn't rained. This is insane. I couldn't see out the balcony window a while ago-it looked like a hurricane was coming through. I talked to Andy, he's stuck downtown on the Metra-trains aren't going anywhere because of tornado sightings.

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Sean and I got caught in it driving home this afternoon. Trees down everywhere. I had to go the wrong way down several one way streets to make it home. It was crazy. Power out all around. Cables and trees lying in the street. Here comes round two.

 

 

Best part was watching some dude get thrown to the ground while riding his bike. That's some real wind to knock a man over like that.

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Yeah. It took 2 hours from Glenview to Schaumburg. Pulled over at Wendy's for a quick snack, and here I am at home, 3 1/2 hours after I left work. :freak:

 

The trees on the road weren't too bad, but the dead traffic lights really {censored}ed me up.

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Elgin got hit twice. I saw little damage on the NW side by work and my short commute. The worst might have hit the south part and South Elgin. I heard around that Schaumburg & Wheaton were hit bad.

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Man, listening to you guys about driving home, and seeing the news, I made the right choice! Was going to head to Geneva for a workout before going home. But when I got to Kirk Road, it was bumper-to-bumper headed north. For the 2 or so miles I could see, at the least. So I turned south and headed home.

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I just had a REAL up close and personal look at all that weather. Bad stuff! some of the largest area masses of cells I've seen in years. Looked like a huge black wall coming in towards Chicago from the east. The trailing line of storms all packed into one huge, major area of big time thunderstorms and wicked bad weather. I'll be glad when this country-wide mass of uber-hot air will finally move out. The killer heat and so much humidity just keeps kicking these storms up every day. Getting tired of dancing around them.:mad:

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I just want my power back. I've played as much double bass as I can for one night and reading by candlelight is getting tiresome. Thank god I can post from my bberry. :freak:

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Sean and I got caught in it driving home this afternoon. Trees down everywhere. I had to go the wrong way down several one way streets to make it home. It was crazy. Power out all around. Cables and trees lying in the street. Here comes round two.



Best part was watching some dude get thrown to the ground while riding his bike. That's some real wind to knock a man over like that.

 

 

Riding the bus home, we saw several trees that had been completely uprooted.

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