OK, the sirens have been off for a while and the wind's died down....
Tornado Warning for... central Cook County in northeast Illinois
until 645 PM CDT
at 608 PM... Doppler radar indicated strong rotation in a severe thunderstorm near near Western Springs... moving east at 45 mph.
The tornado is will be near... Riverside... Brookfield... North Riverside and Lyons by 615 PM Berwyn... Cicero... Oak Park... Stickney and Forest View by 620 PM Douglas Park and Humboldt Park by 625 PM Lincoln Park and downtown Chicago by 630 PM
Go to the basement and seek shelter under The Stairs or under a heavy piece of furniture. In high rise buildings... move to interior closets... hallways... bathrooms or stairways. Stay away from windows.
Dunno if the rotating air mass thingie actually turned into a tornado or not...
eta: Wacky tornadic x-post.
I don't understand people.
"You sent me email?"
Uhh, yeah. Also, I just called you about that email an hour ago.
Today has been a day of major inbox obtusiveness.
And also of migraines. I'm going home.
We've now been downgraded to Tornado Watch:
TORNADO WATCH 791 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN ILLINOIS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
LIVINGSTON
IN EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
FORD IROQUOIS
IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
LA SALLE
IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS
COOK DUPAGE GRUNDY KANKAKEE KENDALL WILL
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF... CHICAGO...JOLIET...KANKAKEE... MORRIS...OSWEGO...OTTAWA...PIPER CITY...PONTIAC AND WATSEKA.
STAY IN THE BASEMENT, PEOPLE!!!!
I think my building counts as a high-rise, so I can hide in the closet instead of the basement.
Anyway, it's all quiet at the moment.
I'm still at work and the clouds are clearing up downtown. The last bits of sun for the evening are poking through.
So, I'm watching Criminal Minds from whenever, and it's weird, after watching Dead Like Me all summer, to see Mandy Patinkin
talking about Rules and the following thereof.
In my head we are like long lost cousins now.
Having met you both I can vouch that you have extremely compatible...uh, energy.
t /woo woo
OMG, St. Ignatius is playing Sacred Heart Cathedral in prep football across the street at Kezar Stadium and it sounds like the Christians have been thrown to the lions.
Oy. Glad there were no actual tornados. One of our sys admins called in to ask how things were going on at our corporate office. I told him I had no clue, since I wasn't there, but considering I was still RDPed into a PC down there and accessing several servers, it was a pretty safe bet the building was still in one piece.
ION, straw, camel, broken back, get me the fuck out of this place. I got my paycheck today. They dropped my payrate to the exact amount needed to where working 45 hours a week, with overtime, equals what I was getting paid weekly in salary for 40 hours of work. I called my boss to express my outrage and he informed me the CIO has stated he feels 45 hours of work is standard for IT.
I am pissed beyond all reason.