Ah. Tornado warning is for "Southern Cook county."
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I turned on the tv to get a more detailed picture. The warning includes the Loop.
Sirens again.
we had an earthquake, and now there are tornados? Is this the apocalypse?
Ugh. Am working at a doctors office and just overheard s convo of a mom turning down gardasil for her daughter because she wants the daughter to wait til she's married to have sex. Great, lady. Can you ensure that will happen? Ensure she won't choose otherwise? Be forced to do otherwise? That even if she does wait, her husband will have waited? Or will never cheat? Hrmph.
we had an earthquake, and now there are tornados?
And my cat had to go to the vet. wtf?
The warning includes the Loop.
Radar looks like Rogers Park is almost out of the heavy stuff.
Oooh, 78 mph wind gusts in Yorkville, 70 mph in Joliet with tree limbs down.
It's a little quieter here, but downtown still looks nasty. The highways are a nightmare. A traffic cam on I-80 is showing hail.
One of the reporters said that in 20 years he's never heard the tornado sirens downtown.
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I read about tornadoes in the south suburbs, and I get flashbacks to August 1990, when that F5 roared through Plainfield. I knew some people who were injured, but luckily enough avoided serious injuries or dying, but my aunt and uncle knew the three who were killed when their church got hit. That link mentions the high school, and the mom of a friend of my sister's was working there and barely dived into the hallway before the tornado hit the school, and that hallway was the only thing left standing. She ended up with just a few scrapes on her back.
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