[ASOC]

Thank you for posting the fotos and putting a personal touch on ‘just another wire story’.

Chicago seems like the moon feom here - Alaska.

[Petruchio]

Doppler Radar showed about 8” in Hillside area. Adding yesterday’s and today’s readings from Weatherbug showed 7.75”.

On the ground here, the viaduct on Wolf Rd. is flooded, errr more like overflowed. For the first time in over 50 years that I know of, the park next to that viaduct and the community pool is also flooded. (about a foot deep) All back yards are also flooded. I stayed up thru the night to monitor the basement. I had some sewer backup but it was minor, so I was able to get a nap this morning.

Park & Pool at the corner

view of viaduct from my front yard

Looking North from my front yard. That direction the water was only about 7" or 8" deep

[Seven plus One]

That was one weird 8 hour conveyor belt of rain there. 6:00 was right before the last wave. I thought that I could beat it and get to work without hydroplaning all over the place, but no dice. Turned around, went back home (West Chicago), dang near hit by lightning. The West Branch was just about flush with Geneva Rd. Pretty wild.

[sausageseller]

Il 38 was closed at West Chicago this am. High water at an RR overpass.

[csmusaret]

Well at least POTUS knows where the Chicago area is (unlike Nashville).

[Condor51]

My MILs 'finished basement' in Chicago (SW Side) was under 40" of water, 'almost everthing' in it is ruined.₍₁₎ And her street was under water too, up the the 1st step of her house, and that's raised from the street level.

To boot her phone is out of order, a constant busy signal so we had no way to see if she was okay, and she's 83yo. So that wasn't good for our nerves either. My wife finally got there about 2:30 driving around to miss all the flooded viaducts where the streets dip down. Her house location (and my old hood) is boxed in by RR Tracks and Viaducts.

But my question was and still is - where was The Deep Tunnel? That thing was supposed to end Flooding like this! Did Daley steal the operating funds over the years???

(1) 'Hopefully' after things dry out today, the electrical stuff will restart. Like the furnace fan motor for the AC.

[mlizzy]

About 90% of the homes on our block lost everything in their basements. Our neighbor, I think, lost his tenant as well ... and State Farm is shown (in my parking spot!) at the house next door assessing the damage ...