Yesterday they said big storms in the morning and afternoon. Today they said late afternoon and evening.

Waiting for this sum bitch. Canceled plans because of it.

Nothing.

I know it's coming cuz I see the radar, but how can they be off by that much?

It's here and heavy in Dundee.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Because Mother Nature doesn't give a shit about Tom Skilling.

But Cheryl Scott? Mother Nature treated her well.

Its getting bad down here in the exurbs.

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Yeah but what about the weather?

JDC doing weather updates as well?

They were not off at all. They were actually 100% on.

Every forecast I heard said storms would develop over Iowa late afternoon, and move into the Chicago metro area after 7pm.

That is exactly what is going to happen. It looks like the most severe and tornadic cells will probably stay south of the city, but still we're in for some heavy storms.

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Consider for a moment how much data goes into predicting weather for a 10-square mile radius not just on the ground level x and y axes, but also the z axis several miles into the sky, and do so all at the same time. Now make it 50-square miles. Now 100. Now the entire midwest. It's a bitch that still kicks the shit out of modern computing.

On top of that, anyone - TV, Radio, Newspaper, Internet - that wants you to pay attention to them for weather will always err on the side of storms and bad weather ... if it doesn't happen when they said it did, "ah those dicks don't know shit" but you come back anyway ... if they say "shit's gonna be fine" and the finger of God rolls through, they'd be crucified and nobody would listen to them ever again.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

And that friends, is "sensationalism."

This was tweeted to the Nat'l Weather Service page about 5 minutes ago.

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Subaru's are no joke, son.

Where is that?

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I renew my objection to the semi-recent influx of TV channels sending people out to drive in dangerous weather so we can see what fucking rain or snow on a windshield looks like. I cannot find any benefit from it whatsoever, particularly balanced against the potential danger it poses for those sent out as well as those who are already out there for whatever reason.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

In DeKalb county, near Paw Paw.

Dr Forbes of the Weather Channel said there was a 60% chance of a tornado within 50 miles of the Chicago metro area tonite. He was correct....again. The last time he had a forecast like this, Fairdale was wiped off the map.

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Damn. Frank is just slapping the shit out of Beardown in this thread. Go easy, Frank!

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

That's not the only thing this weather is causing Frank to slap around.

That pic may be out by Mendota - the police out in the area reported a tornado "on the ground".

Gettin' jiggy out this way...

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Not a mult.

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They are almost always right. People complaining about weather forecasters and weather warnings are idiots.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Shit, I was supposed to drive out that way to take some photos....guess I'm lucky I didn't go.

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US National Weather Service Chicago Illinois

3 mins ·
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Tornado in progress about 1 mile north of Earlville per trained spotter report at 7:56 pm CDT. This is a dangerous storm! Be ready in Leland and Somonauk for possible warning issuance.

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Why are they talking about weather in DeKalb? I don't live in DeKalb! Let DeKalb's TV station talk about DeKalb. WHERE'S BIG BROTHER???

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Shots fired at Jimmy Macaroni.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Here is the tornado that went thru Earlville

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Wow.

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You know me like that.

SlapShot Ed chases pretty frequently and was lined up to see that one. they got the hell out of dodge as that one was pretty rain wrapped. Can't mess around with that.

Because Cheryl is in Paris! That's why!

Denied.

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