Storm Damage - Some Bad, But Mostly Okay
Last night around 8:30 while watching "Master Chef" that we had recorded from the 
night before, a warning bleeped through the recording to tell us to skeddaddle to the basement - a real TORNADO WARNING. At about the same time, the tornado sirens began wailing from afar.
Down we went. Our dog, Marly, was not too pleased - while she likes to come down on very hot days, this felt all wrong to her. The lights flickered and went out . . . for about a minute - just enough time to foul up all the digital clocks in the house. The wind blew and it rained very hard then suddenly it was over.
My street had the usual after-storm debris which did not look too serious. I hopped in the car and set out to survey the damage and was happy to see that most streets were the same as mine - lots of leafage, and downed branches and twigs. Some residents did have serious damage, such as large trees uprooting and falling on their houses, but photos from other parts of Chicago show much more significant damage.
Nothing approaching the huge storm of August 2008, but lots of problems nevertheless.
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