Chicago is known as the Windy City, although whether this refers to its weather or its politicians is debatable.
On Sunday, though, my suburb of West Chicago was a much windier city just for a short period of time. Wind sure can do a lot of damage, though!
Power was out for about 19 hours in our house, but some of West Chicago is still in the dark. Hopefully that will change soon.
West Chicago’s storm made the news. It’s rare that our little suburb actually makes it onto big-time Chicago news, but we’re the most interesting story out there right now. I’ve seen news trucks for several Chicago channels rolling down my street. There was a helicopter spying on my town while I was out running this morning (of course, I was checking out the damage around town, too!).
Most of the footage in that clip is within 3 blocks of my house. Fortunately, my house wasn’t damaged at all.
