Uh. One of the Marina City Towers is on fire.
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shrift - Apr 24, 2009 11:00:23 am PDT #16685 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2009 11:01:29 am PDT #16686 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
They had a fire there not too long ago that was just a small in-unit fire--is it bad enough to be seen outside the building?
shrift - Apr 24, 2009 11:02:15 am PDT #16687 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think it's another in-unit fire. I can see the smoke.
Tom Scola - Apr 24, 2009 11:08:00 am PDT #16688 of 30000
hwæt
The Bob Newhart buildings!?
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2009 11:08:57 am PDT #16689 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I don't think that Bob Newhart used Marina City for either his office or his apartment, but they are locally known as the Corncob Towers for obvious reasons.
Sue - Apr 24, 2009 11:09:58 am PDT #16690 of 30000
hip deep in pie
So I managed to get a virus on my work computer today. Every time I tried to delete it or run virus software, the computer would restart. That's fun. I think I may have to ship it off to IT on Monday.
Am home now.
Those cats looked pissed.
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2009 11:10:38 am PDT #16691 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Haven't seen anything on the Tribune, but this is cool:
World War II dive bomber recovered from lake
Do people know that the US Navy did much of its training of aircraft carrier pilots in Lake Michigan during WWII? They took these old ferries and made little aircraft carriers out of them. The worlds only fresh-water, coal-fired, paddle-wheeled aircraft carriers. If a pilot made a bad landing and went over the side, he'd fall onto a paddle wheel.
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2009 11:14:33 am PDT #16692 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was late getting to the vet's because I had to have the IT people down in Texas do a remote virus scan for something I picked up earlier this week while I was looking for info on my mp3 player.
Followup to tom's post: George HW Bush did his Navy flight training at Navy Pier.
ETA:
They took these old ferries and made little aircraft carriers out of them.
One of those old ferries was the Eastland, which was pulled from the Chicago River after it flipped over, killing over 800 people in 1915. It was renamed the USS Wilmette and operated as a ferry throughout the 1930s and only after the war began was it converted into a training vessel.
shrift - Apr 24, 2009 11:14:46 am PDT #16693 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I don't see smoke anymore at Marina City, but now there's a helicopter overhead and a ton of ambulances, fire trucks, and cop cars near the Hotel Sax.
msbelle - Apr 24, 2009 11:15:38 am PDT #16694 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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