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I loved that apt...it was really big, a huge front room, a huge dining room, two good sized bedrooms, and a medium size kitchen, which had a large pantry...and it had a sunporch, which I really loved...and now, here comes a sunporch story...

Our apartment was on the third floor...the sunporch was off of the front room, and it was on the front of the building, and looked out down on the street...the whole porch was enclosed by nothing but screened windows...

It was a lovely place to put plants, and a great place to sit out in, and open the windows on a hot Chicago evening, with a cool drink...

Anyway our first boy was two years old...one night, what sounded like a very violent storm came our way...the wind was howling, and it just seemed to be of a tremendous force...all of a sudden things got scarey, and two little windows that were in the front room, above the fireplace, blew in and busted all over...and then there was this huge tree right out in front, which was taller than the bldg, which was three stories...we heard that tree starting to crack...

So my husband told me to grab our baby out of his crib, and we should run into the hallway of the apart. bldg. as it should be safer...well we sat out in that hall, until the storm died down a little bit...

When we went back in, that whole tree was actually pulled out by its roots, and slammed against the bldg...our power was also cut...finally we lit candles, sat a while, too scared to move...and then drifted off to sleep...

The next day, we went out and looked around...all the trees on our block, great big huge trees were all down...not just knocked down, but actually pulled out by the roots, which you could see as we toured around our neighborhood...

Now the weather news, said, that there was a very bad storm that last night in Chicago...but that evidentally a small whirlwind, like a tornado whirlwind, had hit down in just one block in Chicago, and did damage to bldgs, and tree, and such...and of course, they were talking about our block...we got hit by a rare tornado...and there was quite a bit of damage...

Now the city sent out their big machines and such to cut up and remove all these fallen trees...the tree in front of our apt bldg, did not fall to the ground, but rather was thrown against the bldg...I had tree branches smack dab up against the windows of our sun porch...it was quite eerie...

Later on that day, I heard this big machine noise going on out in front...so I ran to the sun porch to see what was going on...Now, keep in mind, it was summertime, and it was very hot, and I was wearing nothing but my bra and panties at the moment I decided to run out onto the sun porch...but being as we were three stories up, I figured no one would see me...

Ha...as I go out onto the sunporch in my undies, I see a man in one of those basket type things hooked up to a truck, that was conveying him up to the top of our apt bldg. to begin cutting the top of that tree, which was evidently on the roof of the apt bldg...

Well, of course, I was too shocked to move, seeing this strange man peering into my sunporch window, at me in my undies...I guess I just stood there like a dolt, with my mouth hung open, and my nearly nude body there for all the world to see...

The man in the basket, just grinned, tipped his construction hat at me, and kept going upward in the basket...I bet he had tales to tell his fellow co-workers, and his family, about that ditzy dame on the sunporch...