A Storm Like No Other
2 October 2006
The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a flash flood watch in effect from 3pm Central Standard Time this afternoon through late tonight.
Flash flood watches for portions of Illinois.
I was in my basement office when the lights started to go off and on. At first I thought that someone was playing a trick on me but then I heard the familiar pings of hail hitting the top of my storage shed I knew it was no joke.
The rain started pounding the windows; I had to take a look just as I was about to leave my office, I found myself in total blackness. Inching along as I made my way in the dark to find a flashlight. When I got upstairs I could hardly see out it was a downpour.
I have spent many, many years in Chicago, IL and have never witnessed a storm of this magnitude. I have seen trees down before but not like this. To me this was one of the storms of the century, never before had I seen so much damage first hand.
You see a series of spectacular and gusty thunderstorms had thrashed my neighborhood, as lightening flashed the sky was a bright as day. I saw a transformer take the lightening on and of course the lightening won.
My husband and I went out to take a look around about 4:30am CST; you see we could hear what sounded like something crashing outside but could not look out and dare not to go out into the storm. We got our 5 minutes of fame, being interview by one of the local Television Stations that was in the area.
Fallen trees and there limbs tangled in power lines, made for a very busy Electric company. The electric company was trying to restore power to more than 120,000 customers who were in the dark.
As we surveyed our house, we found out that by the grace of god we had not suffered any damage. However, looking down our street some of our neighbors had not been so lucky there are a couple of houses where trees have fell on their vehicle or garage.
As we walked up one street and down another, we found a tree down on each block we visited some were small in nature or split where part of the tree was in the street. We saw this block after block, we even saw a tree that had been planted 60 years or more years ago uprooted.
I want to take this space to say to God Be The Glory for he allowed my home to be skipped.
I went without lights for about 24hrs and was ok with it, why you might ask; I will tell you why. I am prepared to be without lights for a couple of days. I keep candles and plenty of flashlights around the house. I also keep a battery operated radio and plenty of batteries. I also keep plenty of bottled water.
Well that’s enough for now; the weather service is predicting more storms for tonight.
The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a flash flood watch in effect from 3pm Central Standard Time this afternoon through late tonight.
Flash flood watches for portions of Illinois.
I was in my basement office when the lights started to go off and on. At first I thought that someone was playing a trick on me but then I heard the familiar pings of hail hitting the top of my storage shed I knew it was no joke.
The rain started pounding the windows; I had to take a look just as I was about to leave my office, I found myself in total blackness. Inching along as I made my way in the dark to find a flashlight. When I got upstairs I could hardly see out it was a downpour.
I have spent many, many years in Chicago, IL and have never witnessed a storm of this magnitude. I have seen trees down before but not like this. To me this was one of the storms of the century, never before had I seen so much damage first hand.
You see a series of spectacular and gusty thunderstorms had thrashed my neighborhood, as lightening flashed the sky was a bright as day. I saw a transformer take the lightening on and of course the lightening won.
My husband and I went out to take a look around about 4:30am CST; you see we could hear what sounded like something crashing outside but could not look out and dare not to go out into the storm. We got our 5 minutes of fame, being interview by one of the local Television Stations that was in the area.
Fallen trees and there limbs tangled in power lines, made for a very busy Electric company. The electric company was trying to restore power to more than 120,000 customers who were in the dark.
As we surveyed our house, we found out that by the grace of god we had not suffered any damage. However, looking down our street some of our neighbors had not been so lucky there are a couple of houses where trees have fell on their vehicle or garage.
As we walked up one street and down another, we found a tree down on each block we visited some were small in nature or split where part of the tree was in the street. We saw this block after block, we even saw a tree that had been planted 60 years or more years ago uprooted.
I want to take this space to say to God Be The Glory for he allowed my home to be skipped.
I went without lights for about 24hrs and was ok with it, why you might ask; I will tell you why. I am prepared to be without lights for a couple of days. I keep candles and plenty of flashlights around the house. I also keep a battery operated radio and plenty of batteries. I also keep plenty of bottled water.
Well that’s enough for now; the weather service is predicting more storms for tonight.
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Comments (1)
Douglas Wolfe8
Web Designer & Developer
Hello Trina,
We too have had storms like crazy down here. One after another, day after day. The first week of July they issued a flash flood advisory for us on Sunday morning, it was through Wednesday evening. Then they extended it twice until it lasted a solid, continuous 8 days. The flooding here has been out of sight. We had the wettest June ever on record for our area and July is shaping up to be the same. Streets undercut, Bridges washed out, even some of the highways barricaded