Storms rip across Chicago area — chicagotribune.com
There’s damage everywhere, and there’s still no letup in the rain.Hours after a fast-moving storm packing winds over 70 m.p.h. turned skies from day to night across the Chicago area Thursday — damaging buildings, splitting trees, causing flooding, and bringing planes and trains to a halt — the rain continued to fall.
A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect for Cook County until midnight, and a flash flood watch was in effect for the area through late Friday night.
Occasional showers and thunderstorms will continue tonight, with heavy rainfall and damaging winds possible. Lows will be in the lower 70s.More showers and thunderstorms are likely on Friday, with highs in the lower 80s.
No break in the wet conditions is forecast until Saturday.
UGH!!! This is a muggy wet mess here. Not as horrible as in some areas of the country, but it’s annoying.
We got evacuated to the basement twice today at work – and the rest of the time, I was trying to help some stranded travelers in New York among other things. Hairy day, and then when I got home we had a bit more water in the basement because of the pooling problem by the outer wall. That’ll have to get fixed right quick after the weather lets up, which won’t be real soon.
The Trib is gathering “storm photos” and so far the best of the bunch is probably this one:
Taken by roscoe83, who is either incredibly lucky or knows where to set up his gear and wait for the shot. Probably the latter.
I rated it 5 stars. Unfortunately it’s buried in the Trib photo gallery or I would have linked to it directly.
Stay safe.
All is quiet at the moment, but the thing about these thunderstorms is they whipped up out of nowhere in a very short time. Last night at around 4am, it was like a wall of wind and rain and sound all at once, with a loud thunderclap into the bargain.
Tomorrow should be interesting.