Windy City & Suburbs

Wow! We had some weather yesterday at about 3:30 pm and continuing into the evening. I happened to be on the phone with a manager at the Wilmette restaurant. I told her there was a storm coming her way. We continued to talk and about a minute later, I decided I needed to go to lower ground. My second floor office, filled with windows became a bit intimidating when the wind picked up, the sky turned green and it rained buckets. We were in a tornado warning.

No one has said that it was a tornado but the winds did get up to about 55 mph and up! The streets were flooded and my 15 minute commute turned into almost 2 hours. Electricity was off (still is in a lot of places) and that means stop lights weren't/aren't working. Traffic sucked!

This morning, the cleanup begins, before more flooding rains hit us tonight.

Here's a look at some of the stuff that was just blocks from my work. This is fairly typical, although I did take photos of the worst stuff. But there are big trees down everywhere, streets still blocked.

Crazy! We're not the wide open spaces here...this is near the city!



This tree hit this car. It also broke the back window of the SUV parked next to it.




Uprooted trees....


And trees on electrical lines....