Wally

iTrader: (1)

WOW! about all i can say! I have lived here all my life and never seen anything as bad! I was at work when it all hit the fan...we have HUGE front windows in the engineering dept..probably 6'x6' sheets of glass with smaller openable windows under that....when the storm hit it looked like we were in a car wash!!! The wind was so strong it was picking up gravel off a roof from a building across the street about a good 100' away and hitting our windows! Tree branches everywhere!! Much of Glenview is still out of power this morning. I drove home expecting allot of damage to the neighborhood.....glad to see my area was spared from allot of damage. My neighbor across the street was not so lucky....his tree was snapped and laying on the front lawn...no damage to house. And theres lots of street that you couldnt pass cause of down trees....

Hope none of our members got any major damage


below is my neighbors tree....

Wally

iTrader: (1)

heres a down tree branch at a local park i drive by and a tree that fell across the street i normaly take to go home ....had to find another way around.....crazy!

sommerfliesby

We lost a bunch of branches off the big azz willow tree that covers our whole back yard...neighbor still has a 3-foot-diameter tree ripped out of the ground and balancing on a powerline! Houses across the street are without power, and ComEd said it could be 72 hours before they come back on! I'm praying tonight isn't as bad, if my power goes, I figure I've got about 5 hours before my basement gets flooded...the line for generators at the local Home Depot was at least 50 people long this morning!

obnoxus

Mike,,,, I have a generator you can use if needed,,,,,,,,,,,,,As long as mine isnt out to !!!!!!!

Roger 1

Mike;

Did you get a generator? If not, would you like me to check the stores down here for you?

Roger

Magic Medicine

Good luck Mike!

No troubles here, most of the big storms went North of us.

Wally

iTrader: (1)

Hey Mike, dont kow if you want or need it tonight, but i have a spare 800 watt inverter you can use if you need it...i was running my 36" TV of it last night with an extention cord from my truck till the power came on

I know your a bit south of me (i'm at 294 & 90 near Harlem ave) but if you need it just call me..i think my cell's on the CPC site or get it from Mark Smith

sommerfliesby

Thanks for the offers kids...my neighbor has a big genny that he told me I could plug into if I need to tonight...hopefully I don't need to!

Payton

Glad you guys are ok and you've got everything covered. A week ago we lost several trees and a 50,000 bu. grain bin. Now we are just fighting water. The Kankakee River is way up. We are very well prepared for average flooding. But, this is soon going to well above average.

candyman35

We lost are electric last night around 11:00. At 1:00 I gave up on ComEd and installed an electric pump. Good thing because the sump was two inches from overflowing by the time I finished. My neighbor wasn't as lucky. Their carpeting and dry wall are all shot.

I hope the long range forecast is wrong about the tropical remnants from Hurricane Dean. We don't need to refill Lake Michigan in one month.
Dan