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It's been raining pretty regularly here in Chicagoland since Saturday. Today, it outdid itself.

I was sitting in my new office in Westchester and watched the big storm blow by. About ten minutes later, I called into the Loop office and got the report that the storm had arrived there and that on the 23rd floor the building was swaying back and forth.

I got on I-294 which stopped cold immediately after the last chance to get off before the O'Hare exit. So I spent a bit over an hour crawling home through periodic pouring rain. (The radio traffic report kept insisting that the traffic got better after North Ave. They lied.)

But because I was listening to the traffic reports, I suddenly found out that this was a tremendous storm that blew mostly through the north side of town. Trees were down, traffic lights were out, streets were flooded, power was out.

And when I got off the highway, I found all these things. Fortunately, we only have had a couple of short power outages here. But our neighbors have lost shingles off their roof, one of the ash trees down the block has snapped in two, many traffic lights are out, many people are without power, and there is deep water pooling in low spots on the streets.

Naturally, we went out to dinner through all this.

We're home now. [livejournal.com profile] daisy_knotwise is putting Katie to bed, after which we'll go downstairs and play Paradise by the Dashboard Light for [livejournal.com profile] decadentdave. :)

(For those of you who missed parts of yesterday's discussion, this all started when he interjected into a conversation that you could write a song with all the baseball references to making out. Well, yes, you could...)

Date: 2007-08-24 05:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com
ANd the telephone poles!
You forgot to tell them about the telephone poles!

GHR

Date: 2007-08-24 06:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurel-potter.livejournal.com
The storm came over and hit West Michigan, but it wasn't as strong. Except, up north, way away from me, there were too tornados that touched down. Just damage, nobody hurt.

We've been getting some very needed rain here, but nothing Ark sized.

Date: 2007-08-24 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catalana.livejournal.com
Eek! I'm glad to know you're all okay. You know, generally when I bring rain, it's of a more mild variety. And it usually leaves when I do. I wonder if it got confused because I didn't come on the train...

Dave's right...

Date: 2007-08-24 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] celebrith.livejournal.com
You could still write a SONG with the baseball references. Steinman wrote an OPERA (supposedly it was 27 minutes long before Rundgren cut it down - I would have liked to hear the original version).

Date: 2007-08-24 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qnofhrt.livejournal.com
For those of you who missed parts of yesterday's discussion, this all started when he interjected into a conversation that you could write a song with all the baseball references to making out. Well, yes, you could...

And even have a real live baseball announcer calling the play by play. I hadn't realized exactly who that was until I heard the obit on the radio last week for Phil Rizzuto. Of course, the radio station then went on to play that bit of the song and I was amazed I hadn't realized who it was before.

Date: 2007-08-24 11:47 pm (UTC)
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I saw news coverage of the storm yesterday. Glad to hear y'all are OK (if short a few trees and telephone poles).

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