Folks in Ohio, Illisnois, Idaho, etc.

[MilDoc]

Any of you washed out by the storms up your way?

Hope you're all well and dry ....

Shoot. One of these days I need to learn to type. Mis-spelled "Illinois."

[LYU370]

Any of you washed out by the storms up your way?

Hope you're all well and dry ....

Shoot. One of these days I need to learn to type. Mis-spelled "Illinois."

We got nailed pretty good up in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. The Edens Expressway (I-94) was shut down for several hours because of flooding right by where I work. My work is without power, all the UPS's ran out so all our computer systems are down. My mom's neighborhood is without power, all sorts of trees down everywhere. At one point it took me an hour to go 2 miles, so I said forget it and stopped for a few cocktails to let traffic die down.

My neighborhood... Looks like nothing happened. Go figure.

[Ed62]

Our area has been hit with severe thunderstorms, and there have been funnel clouds seen. There is quite a number of large trees down, damage to homes, etc., but I haven't heard of anyone being severely injured (but a lot of close calls). We got through it pretty well, with just a lot of mostly small branches to pick up. One of my boys lost 2 large trees, but only very minor damage to his home. There has been, and still is, a lot of power outages. It seems like they just get power restored, and another storm hits.

We've been in our home for over 16 years. During the first few years, we had a little water get into the basement one time, but no more until this last week. During the last week, we've had water 3 times. Nothing serious.

Ed

[John Hunter]

There is quite a number of large trees down,
Ed

yep! I am stocking up on the free wood! Got some maple and oak. So there is a silver lining to the storms.

[SHADOWFOX]

A lot of the trees in the historic part of West Dundee snapped in half and some were uprooted. These are trees that are nearly 100 years old. Some of the trees that were snapped in half were close to 3' in diameter. It was sad to see these trees destroyed. At the same time I wish I had a huge truck and a Woodmizer bandsaw. Some of the maple trees would have been awesome.

Not to mention the Fox river was overflowing. Luckily we are far enough to where we do not have to worry about getting flooded.

[softop41]

Southwest suburban(actually closer to Joliet) are got 5+ inches of rain but no damage or flooding. So, no free turning wood
Jerry

[germdoc]

There were 7 deaths across the river in Minnesota, and a lot of people lost their homes. A lot more had water damage or mudslides. Here's a photo gallery that shows a little of what happened:

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/share...lideshow&id=35

I had a tiny amount of water in my basement, much less than the INTERNAL flooding I had a few months ago from a leaky pipe, so no big deal for me, but others weren't so lucky. One doc I know had his house slide down the hill--his wife had some broken ribs, but they both survived. Unfortunately, they lost literally everything except the clothes on their backs.

[Kristofor]

We had reservations at Whitewater State Park last weekend but didn't end up going because of the forecast (we had to evacuate there previously from flash flooding). It sounds like all of the cities in the lower elevation of the driftless area took it hard.

15" of rain in 1 day is a lot anywhere, but the geography down there is such that hundreds of square miles of the south eastern part of the state all drain into the Mississippi via just a few rivers (Zumbro, Whitewater, Root, etc.). These rivers flow between bluffs that are 80-300 feet high and tend to be quite prone to flooding

[Slik Geek]

We made it through virtually unscathed, just some standing water here and there. The nasty weather appeared to split around our home and hit northwest and southeast of us. It seemed like all it did for one week was rain, rain hard, and rain very hard.

One of my co-workers got stuck in the Edens expressway mess last Thursday, his 1-1/4 hour drive home became 5 hours. My BIL left for Michigan the next day: his 3 hour drive took 9 hours because of flooding on I-80/94. The worst I saw was my 3/4 hour commute took 1-1/4 hours.