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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 08:07 PM
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Tornado touchdown, just east of elgin. Stay safe!!!
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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 08:25 PM
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Thats my area thanks for the heads up.
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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 08:39 PM
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I did hit the deck...to watch lol
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 12:37 AM
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Idk about anyone else, but lansing and NW Indiana got hit hard. I just got back from pulling a tree out of my friends roof. 5 broken truss'
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 02:57 AM
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**** ive been cleaning up lansing/munster for hours by my aunts house. its honestly like a natural disaster over in that area
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 07:49 AM
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Had to go pick up car & drop at chassis shop. When I took truck & trailer back to park in shop,
I ended up getting stuck all night. Way too nasty out to be on the roads. It's been pretty bad again this morning.
RT 66 area got hammered bad. Good thing they built a Jewel near the shop or I would starve.

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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 07:54 AM
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It was pretty bad in elmhurst coming home from work yesterday night.
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 08:26 AM
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A part of Addison along Lake Street looks like it got hit pretty hard, was quite a mess going in to work . . .
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 08:39 AM
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Holly ****. I live in Bloomigdale and my condo association looks like a tornado hit here. Trees down everywhere. On top of roof, cars, streets, you name it! By far the worst I have seen in a long time. Hope everyone is ok. Vince
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 08:49 AM
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my first day back in chicago and it stomed like a mother, lightnig struck near my buddys house here in hanoverpark
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 05:32 PM
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i just got my power back on here in bourbonnais. At my work in kankakee they had no power all day. people i work with that live in some real small towns said comed told them it might be as long as three days before their power is back.
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 06:17 PM
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me and a few buddies were drinkin beers in his truck out on some country gravel road whn it blew in! man was tht fun
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 06:33 PM
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A part of Addison along Lake Street looks like it got hit pretty hard, was quite a mess going in to work .
hell yeah I'm right at lake and addison, lucky my power didn't go out. Just down Lake st. near villa ave were blocks of powerlines on the ground. Lightning was pretty wicked though.
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 06:55 PM
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When the heck was this???
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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Were still without power, And there talking a couple days!!!No running water and no a/c really sucks!!!
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by BadBandit69
i just got my power back on here in bourbonnais. At my work in kankakee they had no power all day. people i work with that live in some real small towns said comed told them it might be as long as three days before their power is back.

Just walked in from there. Had to pull a tree out of crew chiefs, daughters windshield.
We dropped off a couple of generators for his family to borrow also. It was very bad out where they all live. Still no power.

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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 01:52 AM
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My folks called me while I was working and told me that the power was out... so I stayed out as long as possible hoping that the power would be back on by the time I got home. When I got back home to Summit, it was about 3am and there was absolutely no lights on in my neighborhood. I parked my Trans Am down the street, and I had decent distance to walk to my house and holy **** was that creepy lol.

A neighborhood with no lights.... 3am so there are no cars on the road.... quiet as hell... and no movement what-so-ever. It felt like the god damn Dawn of the Dead lol. Thought a zombie was gonna pop out haha.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 10:06 PM
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Well it looks like the tornado was very close to where I live. Here is a article in the daily herald. http://search.dailyherald.com/result...20bloomingdale I live very close to the intersections of Bloomingdale RD and Army Trail and also Glenn Ellen and Arm Trail. I was driving home from the shop as it came through. Funny thing is I got off of 355 onto lake and the street lights and stop lights all went out. I thought it was kinda freaky. Here is a link for those of you who live in the area. http://search.dailyherald.com/result...20bloomingdale

Also my wife said that there was tornado warning on the TV however our town was not listed. Also she said that the tornado sirens never went off. Real nice!
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