Grayslake F1 tornado

[MerryBlooms]

Feeling so blessed. We lost our hickory and sunflowers, and have a 20ish foot oak limb wedged tight in a maple out front. We have power since 10:38 last night... yay! Chainsaws and chippers minus the generators is a nice break. We're still waiting for our tree guy... hopefully no big gusts to finish the hickory that would take out our shed. Lots of debris hitting the house and fierce wind. It was pretty scary.

This drone footage is NE about a block from us-

Hope all DU members came out okay.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. It were a wicked storm in southwest Cook. Luckily, no

Floods. House and trees, veggies and fruit all survived.

[MerryBlooms]

2. .

Did your sirens go off? Here in Grayslake, ours didn't go off, but my husband was upstairs and heard Round Lake Beach going off and yelled at me on his way down stairs. Shit started hitting the house, power gone and then our phones started alerting. It was scary.

[murielm99]

3. Wow.

Stay safe.

I have driven past the corner where the restaurant was destroyed, near Rochelle. And I am close to the areas in Lee County that were hit hard.

I went to the mall in Sterling yesterday, for the first time since the roof was blown off part of the mall. There are still many stores that have not reopened. The chain stores will recover. I am worried for some of the independent small business owners there. I am friendly with a lady who just reopened her candle and gift shop two days ago, after repairing the flood damage. I hope she will be all right. They operate on such a small profit margin.

We have been hit hard all over this area. I feel lucky to have escaped, and hope it stays that way!

Good luck with your repairs and cleanup!

[City Lights]

4. Glad you're okay. We didn't have any damage here (Waukegan/Wadsworth).

Sorry to hear about your trees, but at least you are safe. We were in the basement for about 20-30 minutes. Was interesting rounding up all of our cats and getting them down there. We couldn't even hear the sirens, though, we knew about the tornado warning from the weather app on our cell phones.