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Old May 15, 2007 | 06:14 PM
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Just checkin to make sure everyone is ok after the tornado in Will County.
Hopefully everyone and their cars are ok!
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Old May 15, 2007 | 06:38 PM
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WHere?
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I believe it went through Monee around 2.30-3.00. I came down RT45 from Frankfort going through Monee and lots of trees broke in half and power lines down all over the place.Boy did i pick a bad day to trailer my car to work,and then take it to Straightline after wards to have the shift points and limiter moved up!!!
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Old May 15, 2007 | 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by NHRAFORMULA00
I believe it went through Monee around 2.30-3.00. I came down RT45 from Frankfort going through Monee and lots of trees broke in half and power lines down all over the place.Boy did i pick a bad day to trailer my car to work,and then take it to Straightline after wards to have the shift points and limiter moved up!!!
yeah thats where it was. I heard a school got pretty jacked up, but I did not hear of any people getting hurt.
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Old May 15, 2007 | 07:25 PM
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i was sleeping @ the time so i didnt even know. but then again it was well west of me
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It still hasn't officially been called a tornado yet. A trained spotter did report one though so I don't know why it isn't official. The spotter saw it near Monee, LOL.
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Originally Posted by ChevyWeatherman
It still hasn't officially been called a tornado yet. A trained spotter did report one though so I don't know why it isn't official. The spotter saw it near Monee, LOL.

one of our spotters call that as well. i was about to go out but i had to be at the FD, we had a house catch on fire due to lighting
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