FishProfiles.com Message Forums

I know heidi/houston was tired of the non-stop rain down in Texas, so apparently she sent it my way... the Chicagoland area had a doozy of a rain storm over the past few days. We're talking funnel-cloud-sighting-intensity. Thousands of trees are down all over the Chicagoland area; last I heard nearly 1500 within the city limits and probably thousands more in the suburbs. Winds were just crazy high, bringing down 150+ year old trees.

Mt Prospect and Prospect Heights were the worst hit suburbs, with trees down on nearly ever street, and thousands without power going on two days now. I'm next door in Des Plaines, and we escaped relatively undamaged besides the flooding. Street lights are out all over the place and I know my parents (in Mt Prospect) are still without electricity and running a generator to keep their refrigerators cold. Many businesses are closed, without power or without employees who can GET to work.

The courtyard in the middle of my cluster of apartment buildings was flooded almost up to the thresholds of the apartment buildings... I know some rain came up pretty high, as the rug just inside the building door was squishy-soaked.

Both the Des Plaines river (which I live within 1/2 mile of) and the Fox River have flooded. The Des Plaines river is up over the roadways, basically cutting me off from uh... everything. Last night on the news, we were watching the flooding of the Fox River, in which the water was totally surrounding the houses, and they could kayak in their front yards (and were!).

I couldn't even get to my second job yesterday due to the river flooding, and hopefully I can get there today. Thankfully it's a set-my-own-hours type job.

Oh, and my car's alternator decided to take a crap yesterday and died when I stopped at Pep Boys to have them run a diagnostic on it. My dad had to find the one street that seems to actually be open and cross the river to come fetch me from work and replace the alternator. Oi. Not a good few days so far!

And it seems we're in for more rain, though the sky is a pretty light blue with cute, puffy clouds at the moment. If we get anymore flooding, I'm going to need to grow gills!

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Believe me when I say I understand kitten! I saw all that on the news. And besides, we've had our share of troubles here in Oklahoma. last winter we were a disaster area when an ice storm hit. We had to desert our home & animals for a week cause we had no electric for heat.

This summer it rained so hard for so long that rivers flooded cities here too & again it was a disaster. Not our city, but a neighbor city where some relatives had to work.

Then the temps. got up into the triple digits for a couple weeks. I never thought I'd be glad to see the temps. reaching into the mid 90's here! I never was before. What a relief!

I think it's getting to the point where people really need to have an emergency relief plan for their household & animals. Anyway I wish you continued safety through all this! I will be watching on the new. Hope we don't see you!

The UK experienced something similar in July.

I have a nice photo on my hard disc that someone E-Mailed me, showing the football ground for Gloucester City FC. The pitch was under 8 feet of water.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

That just missed us. I was sitting there watching it go barely north of us on the radar. We still have tons of downed limbs and my weather program won't shut up over all the flood warnings but no major damage. More rain coming tuesday or wednesday. At least the humidty finally broke after weeks of it being up around 80%.

Cali! That anecdote reminds me of a joke I heard when I was playing football (soccer for the Americans) at school when I lived in England -

What do you do when the pitch is flooded?
Send in all the subs!

I remember playing with mud past my ankles, but it becomes water polo at some point before 8 feet!

Good luck with all the flooding. My friend says he's at his girlfriend's where there has been some flooding. I think it's over now though. Apparently the street in front of her house was under about 6 inches of water (and much more at the end of the road)

><>

Well, the streets were open up on uh... Sunday or Monday night, I forget which. Crossing the river on Golf Rd (major street) still splashes water all over the place. It's no longer submerged, but there's a good deal of water all over, like it was still raining.

Everything still stinks of standing water. Some people just got their power back. My parents had almost exactly three days without power, and ComEd was saying there would be more people just a few houses down that wouldn't be getting power for at least three more days due to split telephone/electric poles.

Much of the downed trees and such have been cleared from the street, even if there's still piles of branches in the parkways. They were talking about more rain this week, but so far, nothing. Thankfully.

In any case, I think I can put aside my gills for a while.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

We had a storm like that last spring. It was fun i could go fishing from my living room couch

Attached Image:


"No whammy, No whammy, No whammy, STOP!!"

1984-Michael Larsen On Press Your Luck

You're lucky you weren't one of those houses that got flooded. Poor cars!