Hey Midwesterners, how're you doing in Tornado-land today?

[uppityperson]

Hoping all is quiet where you are and you are staying low in WI, IA, IL. Reads like lots of winds that aren't tornadoes also. Best wishes and hoping the season ends soon.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

[Snarkoleptic]

1. Trying to watch the Belmont and local teevee keeps breaking in with warnings.

The area South of I-88 and East of Joliet is under tornado and severe t-storm watch.

[uppityperson]

4. Large Tornado on ground in southern Chicago Suburbs

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3404067&mesg_id=3404067

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
622 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008

ILC031-197-080015-
/O.CON.KLOT.TO.W.0024.000000T0000Z-080608T0015Z/
COOK IL-WILL IL-
622 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
WILL AND SOUTHEASTERN COOK COUNTIES...

AT 620 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A LARGE TORNADO ON THE
GROUND NEAR RICHTON PARK. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 29
MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RICHTON PARK BY 625 PM CDT...
CHICAGO HEIGHTS...SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS...OLYMPIA FIELDS...AND
STEGER BY 630 PM CDT...
FORD HEIGHTS...HOMEWOOD...SAUK VILLAGE...AND EAST HAZEL CREST BY
635 PM CDT...
GLENWOOD...AND LYNWOOD BY 640 PM CDT..

[ewagner]

2. Checking the NWS/NOAA

hour-by-hour forecast....it "ain't over yet"

Looks like Central Wisconsin is in the bullseye for tonight....scanner is ON...

[Skidmore]

3. Everything is going to the north of us but it is disgustingly

hot, humid, and windy. I finally broke down and turned the air conditioner on to suck some of the soup out of the air. We are getting flooded and the river about a mile over has spilled out onto the floodplain until it looks like a lake.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. I'm in McHenry county and it looks like the nasty weather split!

Flooding to the North and Tornadoes to the South.
Humid, windy, overcast, but nothing beyond that.

[uppityperson]

6. that's good. I don't miss the tornadoes of spring in the midwest.

Don't miss the mosquitoes or ticks of summer. Or the cold of winter. I did like fall though. Rather like that here a lot in the pacific northwet.

[greenbriar]

7. quiet in Dudah

so far

[uppityperson]

8. That's good. seems you've had enough weather already recently.

Ducks may like the rain, but...

[greenbriar]

15. exactly

but being from Dudah,

I doubt we are done

[uppityperson]

17. Is Dudah like in the song?

Camp town ladies sing this song, Dudah, Dudah, Camp town ladies all day long, oh the Dudah day?

[PeaceNikki]

9. Pretty nasty here. Flooding and hail and wind.

:scared:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3403809&mesg_id=3403809

My neighbor is worried about this transformer in my yard. He said it's packed with 13,000 volts.

[uppityperson]

10. I can see that being a worry. Call your elect co and tell them how close the water is.

It would be a real pain to either short it out or electrocute someone. Cousin of a friend (really) was a lineman for a while until he saw one of his co-workers fried during a storm when they were out repairing lines. He quit. I'd call the electric co and have a talk with them.

[PeaceNikki]

11. Neighbor works for them... he's already on it.

Oh... and electric company JUST pulled up!!

[uppityperson]

12. Good. That looks pretty close to me.

[uppityperson]

14. Looks like it is widespread in the vowel states...

http://www.940news.com/nouvelles.php?cat=24&id=60794
FRANKLIN, Ind. - Storms dumped as much as 25 centimetres of rain on already-soggy central Indiana on Saturday, threatening dams, inundating highways and forcing the U.S. coast guard to rescue residents from swamped homes. Flooding was also a problem in Wisconsin after storms blew through with damaging tornadoes that injured at least five people.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels declared an emergency in 10 counties as the coast guard was called in from the Great Lakes to help with flooding that has forced hundreds of people from their homes
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Ninety per cent of the small town Paragon, southwest of Indianapolis, was underwater, State Homeland Security Director Joe Wainscott said. Water reached the first floor of Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin but no patients had to be moved, county Commissioner Tom Kite said, and cars were submerged up to their windshields in the county government building parking lot.

"We have dams failing in the Prince's Lakes area," threatening the town Nineveh, about 50 kilometres south of Indianapolis, Kite said. Indiana State Police reported evacuations in the Lake Lemon area about 15 kilometres northeast of Bloomington. Dams near Gold Point were close to collapse, police said...(more)

[silverojo]

13. Severe thunderstorm warning and a tornado watch till midnight in Nebr.

Good thing we got our weather alert radio. It's been sounding off a lot lately....

[knitter4democracy]

16. So far, it's heading north of us tonight here in Michigan.

There were two last night that got closer than I'd like to my kids with my mom and Hubby at work. *shudder*

[emmadoggy]

18. It's been all around me all day today.

A lot of it fired up literally right above us and then moved off before doing anything here. But once that big, long, heavy-duty line got going and started drifting SE, it finally got to us. It was VERY dark and VERY ominous looking for probably two hours, though, before it ever did a thing. Then bam, lots of wind and rain, and we've been pounded for the last hour and 45 minutes. It's finally settling down a bit now. Weird thing is, during the brunt of it, there was very little thunder and lightening and now that it is settling down a bit, there is much more lightening and thunder. Strange. Luckily, by the time the line of storms came through here, the threat of tornados had diminished. But there were tornado warnings all around us throughout the day today. Southern WI has been just covered with tornado warnings today and there have been several here in north-central and northeast Iowa.

Seems we've come out ok - but there is a lot of flash flooding going on. Virtually every county is under a flash flood or flood warning. Luckily, our house is on pretty high ground with no streams or rivers nearby.

Hope everyone else is doing ok!

[Release The Hounds]

19. We've had at least 3 tornado warnings since 1pm.

[bbgrunt]

20. well, here in middle Ind, we had two days

of tornadoes and then last night the heavens opened and we are now flooded in. Most of the roads have been closed all day and the rivers are rising. the flood waters are about 1 block from my mom's house where I am visiting--here's hoping the skies stay quiet tonight.

edited to add: Meanwhile my Wi home is in the path of tornado and severe storm warnings.

[uppityperson]

21. Checking in after last night, has it quieted down out there yet?

and a fun article about an outhouse that survived a tornado:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/06/08/New_outhouse_too_fancy_for_farmer/UPI-79421212946971/
New outhouse too fancy for farmer
CINCINNATI, June 8 (UPI) -- A new outhouse built by a Cincinnati non-profit group is simply too fancy for Elbert "Lew" Preston, the Ohio farmer says. The 79-year-old retired tobacco farmer said the outhouse built by People Working Cooperatively is a far cry from the simple wooden structure he once had sitting above a hole in the ground, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Sunday.

"It's too nice and complicated to be an outhouse," Preston said of the concrete and treated lumber outhouse. "I call it a privy."

The senior citizen said his old outhouse not only survived decades of usage, but even being uprooted by a tornado in 1997. Yet a visit by board of health officials resulted in the outhouse being condemned and that's when People Working Cooperatively offered to build a new structure for Preston.

While the farmer apparently misses his dilapidated outhouse, he's relieved he can still relieve himself outside. "When you're in a house, sounds carry," Preston told the Enquirer. "Everybody knows your business."