‘What Are We Going To Have Left In Our Community?’ Aldermen React with Panic, Sorrow to Unrest

[Mommamia]

She is horrid. You should have seen what we got in the southwest burbs. It all spilled way out of the city, all of the burbs went on lockdown. We had stores that closed Sunday and didn't open until Thursday like Target. Malls are boarded up. They were ramming cars into buildings in Ford City mall trying to break in to loot. They set the Sam's club on fire in evergreen park. Went back on Monday and did the same. Set Orland mall on fire Sunday. Wayyyyy outside of the city.

I was teetering on the edge of leaving Illinois after the Covid insanity here with the lockdown and emperor toilets mandates and our health director telling everyone to record all deaths as Covid even if they died if something else.

This letting the riots run rampant crap cured me. I'm looking in Indiana right now as we speak, where logic and common sense is employed in governing. Toilets is too busy taking jabs at Trump and decrying him sending national guard here to worry about us. They can all have each other. This blue state life isn't fit for anyone.

I would have moved to Texas over 20 years ago if I could have convinced my family to move also. My daughters and grandkids are here.

BTW, was your area in the tornado warning earlier this evening?

Yes. We got the cell phone warning!

That's always so scary. I remember when I got my first smart phone years ago, my daughter downloaded the 'tornado' warning app. Good thing she told me it would screech, because if that went off in the middle of the night and I didn't know how it sounded, it would have scared the crap out of me.

We usually get a couple of these warnings a year, and I have a lawn chair set up in the basement so I can be comfortable waiting down there, lol.

I missed the local news tonight. Did there end up being a tornadoes?

[Valentina327]

I would have moved to Texas over 20 years ago if I could have convinced my family to move also. My daughters and grandkids are here.

BTW, was your area in the tornado warning earlier this evening?

Yes. We got the cell phone warning!

That's always so scary. I remember when I got my first smart phone years ago, my daughter downloaded the 'tornado' warning app. Good thing she told me it would screech, because if that went off in the middle of the night and I didn't know how it sounded, it would have scared the crap out of me.

We usually get a couple of these warnings a year, and I have a lawn chair set up in the basement so I can be comfortable waiting down there, lol.

I missed the local news tonight. Did there end up being a tornadoes?

You know I don't watch the news. I haven't heard anything from my Godmother about one up by us. She's taken the place of my ma as the early warning weather update lady now that she's gone. LOL

She sent a picture of a funnel cloud swirling around awfully close to the ground somewhere tonight. I think South of I 80. Some town I never heard of.

Hope all is stable up by you

[Mommamia]

Yes. We got the cell phone warning!

That's always so scary. I remember when I got my first smart phone years ago, my daughter downloaded the 'tornado' warning app. Good thing she told me it would screech, because if that went off in the middle of the night and I didn't know how it sounded, it would have scared the crap out of me.

We usually get a couple of these warnings a year, and I have a lawn chair set up in the basement so I can be comfortable waiting down there, lol.

I missed the local news tonight. Did there end up being a tornadoes?

You know I don't watch the news. I haven't heard anything from my Godmother about one up by us. She's taken the place of my ma as the early warning weather update lady now that she's gone. LOL

She sent a picture of a funnel cloud swirling around awfully close to the ground somewhere tonight. I think South of I 80. Some town I never heard of.

Hope all is stable up by you

We just had rain, no rain, rain, no rain, on and on all night. The warning did cut into a tv show I was watching, which is kind of strange since it didn't include our county,