Chicago Monster Storm

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:27 am

Yesterday 08.23.2007 Chicago was hit by a powerful storm that topled trees and cut power to thousands of homeowners. The maximum wind gusts recorded were around 80MPH at OHare, well within a huricane one specification

Tornado funnels were spoted and tornado cell activity over Chicago was detected.

In Chicago, Greg Wagner leans out of a bucket truck with a chainsaw to clear a North Side road of trees, on West Hutchinson Street near North Clark. Wagner, 49, works with the Streets and Sanitation's bureau of forestry. (Tribune photo by Michael Tercha / August 24, 2007)

Chicago Streets and Sanitation workers clear North Side debris on Hutchinson Street near Clark Street on Friday morning. (Tribune photo by Michael Tercha / August 24, 2007)

In Winnetka, Mike Karnes on Friday checks out the soft trunk of his willow tree, which took out a utiliy pole during Thursday's storms. (Tribune photo by Charles Osgood / August 24, 2007)

A 70-foot-tall elm tree sits splayed open Friday at a Wilmette home on Pontiac Street. (Tribune photo by Charles Osgood / August 24, 2007)

In River Grove, the view is all water at Des Plaines River Road and Grand Avenue. (Tribune photo by Antonio Perez / August 24, 2007)

Fallen trees and branches litter Chicago's Logan Square area on the Near Northwest Side Friday. (Tribune photo by Michael Tercha / August 24, 2007)

The branches even went through the rear window of the car in Logan Square, at Logan Boulevard at Whipple Street. (Tribune photo by Michael Tercha / August 24, 2007)

The walkway leads into the water at Chicago's Montrose Harbor on Friday. Storms on Thursday pushed the docks off angle, and crews were working to fix them so owners can access their boats and check for damage. (Tribune photo by Michael Tercha / August 24, 2007)

Neighbors move a tree from the top of a car on West Hutchinson Street between North Clark Street and North Greenview Avenue in Chicago. Downed trees were blocking streets and reportedly had caused dangerous gas leaks. (Tribune photo by Nancy Stone / August 23, 2007)

Joe Crawford of Barrington wades into the flooded parking lot at the Metra train station in Barrington on Thursday after storms caused the lot to flood. (Photo for the Tribune by Ryan Rayburn / August 23, 2007)

Commuters' cars are partially submerged in the Barrington Metra parking lot after heavy storms moved through the area on Thursday. (Photo for the Tribune by Ryan Rayburn / August 23, 2007)

Heavy rains left many cars partially submerged in Barrington's Metra train lot on Thursday afternoon. (Photo for the Tribune by Ryan Rayburn / August 23, 2007)

Virginia Nardi of Chicago and her 2-year-old son Vincent seek shelter from a brutal storm that hit the 14th Street Beach in Chicago Thursday afternoon. (Tribune photo by E. Jason Wambsgans / August 23, 2007)

Beachgoers and lifeguards evacuate the 14th Street Beach to avoid the oncoming storms. (Tribune photo by E. Jason Wambsgans / August 23, 2007)

Ricardo Pacheco checks out a storm-damaged car on the 1000 block of West Dakin after a storm blew through the area on Thursday. (Tribune photo by Charles Cherney / August 23, 2007)

Debris from a roof lies in the southbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive after the storm Thursday. (Tribune photo by Charles Cherney / August 23, 2007)

Tom Saner gets a close look at a downed tree next to the History Museum in Lincoln Park at North Avenue Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. (Tribune photo by Charles Osgood / August 23, 2007)

Collapsed scaffolding blocks a driveway between the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center in Chicago on Thursday. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / August 23, 2007)

Severe weather over Chicago. (CLTV photo / August 23, 2007)

Post by **Neil B** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:41 am

It's been like that in England for most of the summer with some horrendous flooding and rain.
Great photos there though Bingo.

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:49 pm

That's funny, it's happening over here too...

Post by **garyb** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:37 pm

push button.

Post by **hubird** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:25 pm

yeah...
great pics indeed

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:29 pm

We're done... this is getting bad... But know... what can we realy do if all the harm to the planet has already been done?

Post by **garyb** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:28 pm

here's a blast from the past for tongue cluckers...

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:42 am

melting the icecaps to cool down the earth, by covering it with soot... wonder if we learned something since '75

or was it to warm it up? anyways it seems like a bad idea.

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:53 am

well atleast the centre got more data now, even fancy coputers and stuff

http://www.ucar.edu/research/climate/warming.jsp
http://www.ucar.edu/research/climate/future.jsp

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:30 am

Very interesting reading Gary, thank you, 30 years have gone from that moment… imagine what scientists have to say today.

I would like to talk about an extremely serious point here, hidden to the world, but which is happening right now! It is so serious, that governments have covered it up for tens and tens of years already. I know about it because as you know, I have a well known scientist friend, which is one of the guys with more knowledge about sea life in the world.

He told me that the earth is having a change of polarity in the magnetic fields and that this is the very cause of the big changes we are experiencing on the earth.

He explained me that what is today the equator will change to be the poles and the other way around, magnetically speaking. The problem is that this magnetism is so gigantic, that it will move huge areas of the world up and some others down, generating earthquakes never seen before in history.

I know this is absolutely terrible, but I think it is time for everybody to know the truth about it, so here it is.

This changes have already started and are walking more rapidly every year. If you take an old map and try to follow it strictly by its leads, you will realise that the magnetic poles have changed and do not coincide with the map, and that this changes are more noticeable every year. The whole of the African continent, for instance, displaces itself on average 15 centimetres per year.

Carlos told me that this will bring, very unfortunately, monumental natural catastrophes as the geography of the world is going to be changing drastically. What he expects is that some areas that are today ocean, will become mountains and that some other areas that are mountains will become ocean, changing the structure of our countries and nature. He has studied the amazing fact that there are remnants of see live in all the highest mountains of the world, as there is vegetation in the deepest of oceans. That means that they were once, the opposite to each other: mountains were under the see, and the see were mountains.

But what is exactly causing SUCH a big movement, what kind of force can produce such a superbly gigantic change as changing the magnetic field of a planet like ours? Another Planet! A planet that in the secret circles of science is called “the red planet” (do not mistake with Mars also called the same way), and they know it also as Barnard One. This planet is under observation by a group of scientists in is approaching our world. Barnard One is so, so big, that is many times bigger than the bigger of our planets which is Jupiter! So its electromagnetism is huge, and this is already unsettling the electromagnetism of an important area of our solar system in which the earth is, and this is the problem we have as the bottom line, for all the climatic changes we’re having. Of course, industries, factories, pollution, cars, excessive abuse of nature, depopulation of large areas from green, are helping the changes too.

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:09 am

its a well known fact, nestor

http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/reversals.html

and continents have always moved, have a look at the world map and see how well each continents fit

quote:

"Human beings have been on the Earth for a number of million years, during which there have been many reversals, and there is no obvious correlation between human development and reversals. Similarly, reversal patterns do not match patterns in species extinction during geological history.

"

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:16 am

and heres some more info on barnards star:

http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/Misc/barnard.html

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:40 am

My Uncle's boat is MIA as it was moored on the St.Charles River.

Most people I know from ChiTown have flood insurance, as this is not uncommon up there. Winters and summers in the midwest are always extreme. I grew up there. What's not normal are years of peace and quiet. Afterall, they don't call it Tornado Alley for nothing.

Mother Nature seemed to go after trailer parks in the past, now she has decided the cities are prime targets.

My Heart Goes Out To The Families Of The Victims,

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:58 am

piddi wrote: "Human beings have been on the Earth for a number of million years, during which there have been many reversals, and there is no obvious correlation between human development and reversals. Similarly, reversal patterns do not match patterns in species extinction during geological history."

More recently Ding et al (2006) have identified a 61 My periodicity of lower significance in animal transmembrane gene duplication events, offset in phase about 2 radians from biodiversity; the peak in gene duplication events corresponds with the onset of the declining phase of biodiversity. Also, Rohde (2007) has noted the same sort of periodicity in 87Sr/86Sr isotopic ratios, which is generally taken as a proxy for continental weathering rates. Cornette & Lieberman (2004) suggested a lack of significant long-term memory in
the most of the fossil record, but they did not detrend nor examine lags beyond about 25 My. RM also argued that the five great mass-extinctions (Raup & Sepkoski 1982) may be an aspect of this cycle. It is very interesting that the 62 My timescale is close to the current best value (63.6 My) for the period of the oscillation of the Sun in z, the distance perpendicular to the galactic disk (Gies & Helsel 2005).

Apparently all major mass extinctions on Earth happened with ~63My (million years) periodicity. That correlates with our solar system's oscilation within the Milky Way galaxy.

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:34 am

scope4live wrote:My Uncle's boat is MIA as it was moored on the St.Charles River.

Most people I know from ChiTown have flood insurance, as this is not uncommon up there. Winters and summers in the midwest are always extreme. I grew up there. What's not normal are years of peace and quiet. Afterall, they don't call it Tornado Alley for nothing.

Mother Nature seemed to go after trailer parks in the past, now she has decided the cities are prime targets.

My Heart Goes Out To The Families Of The Victims,

Well, it seems that trees and homeowners with downed power lines have suffered the most from this storm. What is amazing is the sheer force of this storm, the amounts of rain dumped on the ground for the past week (this August set a record rainfall) and the record river water levels. All major rivers around Chicago have flooded. I personally have never witnessed such massive rainfall in such a short time, it was simply a water deluge falling from the sky.

Post by **garyb** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:50 pm

next we'll have to post stories about HAARP and the various UN weather control treaties. if one searches out the actual treaties and reads them, you'll never feel the same about the weather or contrails again. too bad for the people who have to suffer through these disasters......

Bertrand Russell is a traitor to mankind no matter how flowery his speeches were. he was a confirmed eugenicist, calling for the death of 80% of the humans on the planet while posing as a humanist.....but that's another subject.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:37 pm

Wow! You’ve let me with an open mouth! I would have never through that this matter about Barnard One was already public! Anyway, it hasn’t been public too recently I think, as this matter it was known to some scientists since the early 1950!

All I can tell you is that my friend Carlos is a very good person and I have no whatsoever reason not to believe him about all he told me. Sometimes I would understand but many things would be far too difficult because of his specialised language.

Please, if you know anything about this planet, I would be extremely interested in any links you may know! I have searched by myself years ago, and there was nothing at all in internet. Now, I see, some of those scientists are starting to talk…

Gary, can you explain what you mean about Bertrand Russell? What do you mean? Cheers

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:39 pm

Please Bingo, could you reduce the zise of the pics as the thread is difficult to read because it slides to both sides? Cheers

Post by **garyb** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:10 pm

Nestor, B. Russell was quoted earlier. he said a lot of wonderful sounding quotable things, but was a complete sociopath(so were his buddies the Huxleys and miss Sanger, the founder of planned parenthood) who is seen as one of mankind's saviors or at least, good guys. pm me if you want more info. the poor people stuck in chicago without power or drinking water don't need the rhetoric right now(even if i started it)....

BingoTheClowno · Post by **BingoTheClowno** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:00 am

Some local news captures