I have been bailing out a window well for the past 2 hours and it doesnt look like ill get to sleep anytime soon.

I would have rathered 10" of snow

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That sucks

Well.. understandable. Living in the country we just turn the dogs out in backyard. On rare occasion one will get skunked but it's not very often. Usually only once they start having young ones that they end up wandering up by house. I was stunned she wandered off in this storm though.. she's more likely to do the stare at the rain and refuse to leave the porch.

Good luck Frank. Days like this I'm glad to live on a hill.

If I had to go outside in the pouring rain while somebody encouragingly cheered "go potty", I'd pee like a race horse and get back inside. She'll stand there like a goof blinking and smelling the air or rain like she has no idea what the drill is.

The sound of the last 5 minutes is as bad as just before Katrina made landfall in New Orleans.

And nothing that sounded off starting at 2am that day was as startling as this(until the wind started twisting the steel skeleton of the high rise I was staying in)

I'm just shocked my roof held up...or that I still get a satellite signal.

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The rain hurts their ears. Somehow the rain falling amplifies everything. Our vet once described it to me as "trying to pee while somebody is yelling in your face with a bullhorn" which makes sense that they don't like to go very quickly in the rain. If possible, take her out before the rain or when there is a lull and its not a downpour. Holding an umbrella over the dog might help. It certainly has with our little girl.

I finally got to bed about 12:30. Got a bit of water in the basement, but nothing too bad and nothing got ruined except for my pride.

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Should be a drain in the center, unclog the drain tile.

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There should be a drain in the center of your face.

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Keep bailing water out of your window well dummy, smh.

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Bury a bucket with holes in it in the bottom of the well and hook a sump pump to it.

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You know me like that.

Drop a Hershey Kiss in the window well.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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The Naplate/ Ottawa tornado has been rated an EF3, with winds of 136-165mph.

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Enough with the wind.

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Gonna be a rough night. This line of storms looks like it covers from Wisconsin to just about Tennessee.

dammit.. i need to go to bed.. but this shit is probably going to wake me up

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Was driving back from Peoria up 40 tonight. Felt like I was getting shoved the entire way. Pretty good mileage so I can't complain too much. Saying the line hits here around 11ish the last I heard.. Looking foreward to it.

Thanks to the stupid rain and stupid thunder, I basically did not sleep from ~2:45am until almost 4am.

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seriously, it was like mother nature carrying on because today's the first day of spring.

that thunder sounded like thor smashing his hammer all over the ground.

That was some of the loudest thunder imaginable. Next level stuff.

There was thunder? Slept through that shit.

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yup

I don't know if it hit the entire area. I think more south than north of the city.

Frigging phone and tv blowing up with warnings.
Frank... are we all gonna die or what?

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ALL storms are THE SAME????

Eventually.

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2 tornado warnings and two thunderstorm warnings and watches all night. I-80 got shot down from dust storms this evening so I guess the rain is needed can't say I've ever experienced brown out conditions while driving before today.

Large tree down in Palatine. Back to you.

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