Hey, I talked to my parents last night and they told me about the floods in Schaumburg and Illinois. Is everyone okay and such?
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More northerly was untouched, but along the latitude of Schaumburg, I believe there was basement floodings, Al’s house got the crap kicked out of it (? for details, check Al; I think I’m exaggerating), and the further South you went (esp. the Chicago area), the crappier it got. I went into the city on Saturday, after storms did not crop up Friday, and there were still plenty of traffic signals out and lots of downed tree bits waiting on curbs. There was a gazebo near Yoss’s new house (which I’m nominating we refer to as the Settlement) that was partially submerged in the area of what’s normally probably a small pond. I don’t think anyone took any severe damage, outside of maybe Al’s house, though.
We were totally in “climb up on your roof and wait for the choppers” mode last week, but the climbing to the roof never happened. Power outages are still hitting several suburbs, meaning dark traffic lights, closed stores and lots of upset people.
It was pretty much a lot of rain and stupid people. Things are just fine by us.
Unless of course Katrina-style flooding and stuff will get you to move back to the US sooner. Then, yeah, Kanye was heard saying, “George Bush doesn’t want the Olympics in Chicago,” on a Red Cross fundraiser for the Chicago area. I’m typing this comment on a computer that I have to hand crank every thirty seconds to power it up. I have also resorted to eating Chef Boyardee in front of Chris.</sarcasm>
Glad most of y’all are okay and such. I guess I’ll be shopping for a new wardrobe this Christmas. Apparently some of my storage boxes sustained some damage.
We were safe from damage but had enough rain (from here and flowing down from Kenosha) that I got out of work early on Friday because there was fear that the Des Plaines river would flood the streets and we wouldn’t be able to get home. A little bit more and work would have been canceled all together!
Ah well, I guess it’s for the best, our yard liked the rain so much that the grass shot up, well, fast (all my similies were the lamest of lame so I won’t torture you with them).