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We ended up in the basement for about 15 minutes last night too. None of our neighbors were down there though - I thought I was being a little nerdy but good to know others went into the basement too! Our cat purred the entire time we were down there. She's so oblivious.

I wasn't in my basement because all that live down there are spiders, but I did have an absolutely petrified black lab on my lap. I'm new to the Midwest, and last night was my introduction to tornado sirens. That was pretty surreal. I'm from California, where earthquakes don't come with warnings. Luckily my power stayed on, the trees stayed standing, and this morning life seemed back to normal:)

Some trees down in the Rockford, IL area, and a lot of people without power in the southern area. I thought the trees were going to snap in half!

Two trips to the basement in Logan Square. I was a little worried about the trees that were damaged last year when the wind started up but everything around us stayed up pretty well.

We were at the Cubs game... what a mess! Ended up running into a bar JUST around the corner from our house because there was no way we could make it the other block. It was insane. When we finally ran home in the rain it was a bit better, but this morning we really saw the damage. Trees and branches down all over the place. Sad, but sounds like everyone is OK.

We don't have any hot water for some reason though, and we're a little nervous to go in the basement and check out the storage unit!

Watched and listened to the storm from the second story of a wine bar.

Spent the rest of the night dumping water out of my flooded plants.

Spent this morning dumping water out of my flooded plants again.

I lost about a third of the soil in all the pots. It's pretty depressing. Hopefully not something they cannot recover from.

has anyone seen my air conditoning units that were ripped out of my windows in the wind of the storm? please return them to 600 block of addison.

much appreciated.

The storm was amazing...the storm ate my screen door, 3 flower boxes and my air conditioning units.

-KMW

When we heard the tornado warning on TV and it started listing specific neighborhoods..."Rogers Park, Logan Square, Lakeview...." that's when we decided to head to the basement. Scary.

that's not a car, that's an SUV.

had rain coming in my (closed) back door. need to make a call to the ol' landlord about that...

The damage wasn't as bad as I'd feared on my block in northeast Lincoln Park. I overlook the park and I thought there'd be tons of trees down but that storm last fall was more destructive than this one -- at least in my immediate vicinity. In that storm, a car out front of our building had a tree land on top of it.

We did hear the sirens last night and probably should have sought shelter, but instead enjoyed watching the storm roll through.

I went to my basement with shaking hands...I lived in Kansas for about 2 years and when the sirens went off my friends would go OUTSIDE...while I was crying in the basement with my two dogs. Not too much damage out here in Oak Park but my backyard looks like someone gave it a swirly.

Yeah, I grew up in Oklahoma, so it was bizarrely comforting to hear tornado sirens. Felt like home.

Luckily we are a duplex down, so we watched tv and had drinks on the sofa in our basement.

A few branches down this morning on our street, but nothing major.

a vacant house about 7 doors up from me was struck by lightning and caught fire. 7 doors down from me, the sewers backed-up and threatened to flood a couple of homes. so...my neighborhood was really rockin' for a couple of hours. there was a bucket brigade keeping the flood waters at bay and crowds of folks watching the cfd do their thing. (those guys and gals are brave. wow!) i'm happy to say that all is well this morning. and i really love how lots of people pitched-in to help their neighbors.

Another SUV bites the dust...
...nature's version of Karma

my basement where i LIVE got flooded!
i escaped to friends place last night, now im scare to go home....
i do textile and my bolt fabrics got ruined, i hope my furnitures are ok.

Does anyone know if something caught on fire in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood around midnight? When the second storm came through there was smoke and burning smells coming into our apartment - if FREAKED me out. I went all around outside and there was nothing I could see but maybe lightening hit a tree. That was the scariest part for me.

Mopped up flooding basement last night followed by the obligatory run to Home Depot this morning for extra supplies (including a de-humidifier to finish drying it out).

OMG!

The photo reminds me of my neighborhood right after Hurricane Isabel -- someone had a tree come right down in their yard, parallel to their home. Inches away, but nothing damaged.

Sending good wishes to everyone who was affected.

I live on the westside and nearly 3 weeks later, some of the trees have still not been removed and trees are hanging on lines which ComEd refuses to trim. My basement flooded during both major storms this month. I have thousands of dollars of damage. For those of you who live in nice neigborhoods thank your lucky stars that you have aldermen who actually take care of your neighborhood. Water management refuses to do anything about the sewer system here even though they know that is old and decrepit. Soon our streets will cave; that'll be a little more difficult to ignore.

To bumblebeechicago, take off your baseboards to make sure you don't have mold growing under there.