pretty bad. if you just stroll through there in a lexus you are gauranteed to bag a girl who has to foot it.
"do you need a ride?"
"yes, it is so windy and chilly"
"ok, you dont mind if we park behind the dumpster at mcdonalds for ohhhhh 45 minutes do you?"
"of course not! anything is better than walk'n! its windyyyy!
"
girls
"do you need a ride?"
"yes, it is so windy and chilly"
"ok, you dont mind if we park behind the dumpster at mcdonalds for ohhhhh 45 minutes do you?"
"of course not! anything is better than walk'n! its windyyyy!
girls
LOOKS WINDY TONIGHT---
Car damaged by fallen tree. (Tribune)
Chicago area braces for damaging winds
Tribune staff report
Published June 7, 2007, 9:17 PM CDT
Severe weather is expected to move through the Chicago area, bringing with it the potential of damaging winds tonight. But lesser winds already are causing problems around the city.
A tornado watch has been issued for an area west of the city of Chicago—including Lee, DeKalb, Ogle, Kane and McHenry Counties—until 12 midnight, WGN-Ch. 9 chief meteorologist Tom Skilling reported.
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement this afternoon saying a solid line of thunderstorms is expected across Northern Illinois this evening, bringing damaging wind gusts of up to 60 m.p.h. Earlier, gusts of up to 90 m.p.h were expected but meteorologist Rich Brumer said due to the slow movement of the storm, they will be less strong.
"It looks like we're trying to backpedal a little bit. But the dynamics were textbook for real severe weather but the timing is putting a wrench into what we were looking at before," Brumer said.
He said the storm, which is moving slowly into the area from the west, is expected to hit the city around midnight. By that time, Brumer said, the winds will have died and the heat of the day will provide conditions for less severe thunderstorms. Temperatures earlier today rose to 92 degrees at O'Hare International Airport, Brumer said.
Severe thunderstorms are still forecast in the area and could still bring potentially large hail and lightning, along with the possibility of isolated tornadoes.
"We've got a winter-intensity, large-scale storm in a hot, humid, energy-rich summer environment—a bad combo," said Skilling. "The severe storm risk looks high tonight."
Winds were causing delays at both Chicago airports this evening, according to Wendy Abrams, spokeswoman for the Department of Aviation.
As of 8:35 p.m., O'Hare International Airport reported delays averaging one to two hours for all inbound and outbound flights. More than 400 flights were canceled throughout the day due to high winds.
Midway Airport reported normal operations except for a few flights that were delayed 20 minutes, Abrams said. No cancellations had been reported.
All travelers passing through Chicago's airports tonight should contact their airline ahead of time to check on the status of flights.
Winds this morning caused a scare for students at Rosario Castellanos Middle School at 2524 S. Central Park Ave., where roof scaffolding started blowing around, said Chicago Public Schools spokesman Malon Edwards.
No one was injured, and the wind did not cause any damage, but children in a nearby classroom were rushed to the library and another classroom as a precaution, Edwards said.
As of 7:30 p.m., city crews had responded to 796 reports of trees in the public way, 57 traffic lights out, 71 downed wires and 42 reports of light pole damage, according to Matt Smith, spokesman for Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation.
The high winds were also contributing to power outages affecting about 9,730 Commonwealth Edison customers across the Chicago region as of 8:30 p.m., said utility spokesman John Dewey. He said the outages were affecting 6,600 customers in Chicago, 2,200 in the north suburbs, 900 in the south suburbs and 30 in the western suburbs.
At 2:30 p.m., outages peaked with 21,000 customers affected, Dewey said. Since 9 a.m., 84,000 customers had been affected.
ComEd was aware of the windy forecast and had issued a "wind warning" to employees that they may have to be called in to work, according to Judy Rader, utility spokeswoman. High winds can cause numerous outages if tree limbs blow onto power lines or other equipment.
"We take steps to prepare for the high winds and for storms. We've already opened our emergency operations center and postponed (unrelated) repair work," Rader said.
Due to the winds, the city is asking people to be mindful around construction sites today. And the Department of Buildings advised construction managers to secure all equipment on their sites.
ComEd officials were looking at wind as a possible cause of a power outage that hit the South Side this morning. The outage began about 6 a.m. and affected 1,600 customers in an area bounded by 67th and 75th Streets to the north and south, and Mackinaw and Paxton Avenues to the east and west, ComEd spokesman Jeff Burdick said. Power was completely restored by 7:30 a.m.
The winds have kept most boaters off Lake Michigan, according to Rich Munson, the controller for the Chicago Park District's nine marinas.
"If you look out there now, you don't even see the tour boats going out," Munson said. Munson said a small boat wind advisory by the U.S. Coast Guard seems to have been heeded by most boaters.
He said he wouldn't go out because of the way winds keep waves close together on the lake.
"More pounding," he said. "There's a lot of white caps. You've got a close chop out there. And the farther you go out, the bigger the waves."
Car damaged by fallen tree. (Tribune)
Chicago area braces for damaging winds
Tribune staff report
Published June 7, 2007, 9:17 PM CDT
Severe weather is expected to move through the Chicago area, bringing with it the potential of damaging winds tonight. But lesser winds already are causing problems around the city.
A tornado watch has been issued for an area west of the city of Chicago—including Lee, DeKalb, Ogle, Kane and McHenry Counties—until 12 midnight, WGN-Ch. 9 chief meteorologist Tom Skilling reported.
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement this afternoon saying a solid line of thunderstorms is expected across Northern Illinois this evening, bringing damaging wind gusts of up to 60 m.p.h. Earlier, gusts of up to 90 m.p.h were expected but meteorologist Rich Brumer said due to the slow movement of the storm, they will be less strong.
"It looks like we're trying to backpedal a little bit. But the dynamics were textbook for real severe weather but the timing is putting a wrench into what we were looking at before," Brumer said.
He said the storm, which is moving slowly into the area from the west, is expected to hit the city around midnight. By that time, Brumer said, the winds will have died and the heat of the day will provide conditions for less severe thunderstorms. Temperatures earlier today rose to 92 degrees at O'Hare International Airport, Brumer said.
Severe thunderstorms are still forecast in the area and could still bring potentially large hail and lightning, along with the possibility of isolated tornadoes.
"We've got a winter-intensity, large-scale storm in a hot, humid, energy-rich summer environment—a bad combo," said Skilling. "The severe storm risk looks high tonight."
Winds were causing delays at both Chicago airports this evening, according to Wendy Abrams, spokeswoman for the Department of Aviation.
As of 8:35 p.m., O'Hare International Airport reported delays averaging one to two hours for all inbound and outbound flights. More than 400 flights were canceled throughout the day due to high winds.
Midway Airport reported normal operations except for a few flights that were delayed 20 minutes, Abrams said. No cancellations had been reported.
All travelers passing through Chicago's airports tonight should contact their airline ahead of time to check on the status of flights.
Winds this morning caused a scare for students at Rosario Castellanos Middle School at 2524 S. Central Park Ave., where roof scaffolding started blowing around, said Chicago Public Schools spokesman Malon Edwards.
No one was injured, and the wind did not cause any damage, but children in a nearby classroom were rushed to the library and another classroom as a precaution, Edwards said.
As of 7:30 p.m., city crews had responded to 796 reports of trees in the public way, 57 traffic lights out, 71 downed wires and 42 reports of light pole damage, according to Matt Smith, spokesman for Chicago's Department of Streets and Sanitation.
The high winds were also contributing to power outages affecting about 9,730 Commonwealth Edison customers across the Chicago region as of 8:30 p.m., said utility spokesman John Dewey. He said the outages were affecting 6,600 customers in Chicago, 2,200 in the north suburbs, 900 in the south suburbs and 30 in the western suburbs.
At 2:30 p.m., outages peaked with 21,000 customers affected, Dewey said. Since 9 a.m., 84,000 customers had been affected.
ComEd was aware of the windy forecast and had issued a "wind warning" to employees that they may have to be called in to work, according to Judy Rader, utility spokeswoman. High winds can cause numerous outages if tree limbs blow onto power lines or other equipment.
"We take steps to prepare for the high winds and for storms. We've already opened our emergency operations center and postponed (unrelated) repair work," Rader said.
Due to the winds, the city is asking people to be mindful around construction sites today. And the Department of Buildings advised construction managers to secure all equipment on their sites.
ComEd officials were looking at wind as a possible cause of a power outage that hit the South Side this morning. The outage began about 6 a.m. and affected 1,600 customers in an area bounded by 67th and 75th Streets to the north and south, and Mackinaw and Paxton Avenues to the east and west, ComEd spokesman Jeff Burdick said. Power was completely restored by 7:30 a.m.
The winds have kept most boaters off Lake Michigan, according to Rich Munson, the controller for the Chicago Park District's nine marinas.
"If you look out there now, you don't even see the tour boats going out," Munson said. Munson said a small boat wind advisory by the U.S. Coast Guard seems to have been heeded by most boaters.
He said he wouldn't go out because of the way winds keep waves close together on the lake.
"More pounding," he said. "There's a lot of white caps. You've got a close chop out there. And the farther you go out, the bigger the waves."
