Cook County disaster proclamation issued as residents call for answers after flash flooding
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-flooding-fllash-flood-flash-weather/13488474/
Thanks. That sounds about right although the FEMA guys specifically mentioned raw sewage rendering not just furnaces, but everything it touched, in need of replacement (furniture, planking, support beams, walls, carpets, appliances, etc.). Whatever people keep in their basements up there.
A bit OT, but I was traveling (driving) through Central Illinois with my daughter and we went right through the derecho mentioned in the article. Or should I say, in the worst of it that we saw, I pulled off I-57 in front of a semi parked on the shoulder. Sorta used it as a “blocker” just in case there was a multi-vehicle pile-up.
Talk about some mean-ass looking boiling greenish clouds...
Afterward, as we drove on, lot’s of semi’s had been flipped over on (and off) the interstate.