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Near Lawrence and Pulaski at this point
Just stay in the house 😳😵‍💫 wow

Posted by Rashida TreiMama on Sunday, September 11, 2022

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:00 am

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interesting bears game. offense looked anemic in the first half. defense kept them in the game. once fields was allowed to roll out, things started opening up. once we scored the first touchdown, the team played with renewed confidence. the weather was like the closer, with hard rain coming down during the final minutes of the fourth making it all but impossible for the 49ers to do anything offensively. the big question is santos. he missed two PATs. was it the weather, or is something wrong with him?

Comment by former cubs fan Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:05 am

Hit the first of three weekends of Oktoberfests at local breweries. Rain not nearly as bad as the city in the western suburbs. (Maybe the city needed it to put out the fires in the hellhole.) Looked like Soldier Field should have used the White Sox Sodfather instead of the slip and slide.

Comment by West Side the Best Side Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:18 am

BEARS won, however raggedy.
GREEN BAY lost, a division game.

Makes for a good day.

Comment by Langhorne Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:18 am

They are lucky Riot Fest wasn’t this past weekend.

Comment by Big Dipper Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:44 am

Luckily and thankfully not flooded. Memorable Bears game, the win and all the rain/water on the field. Was great to have the other team make all those costly penalties.

Comment by Grandson of Man Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:45 am

all that flooding is just terrifying. hope no one was hurt.

Comment by Amalia Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:52 am

Thanks Rich, for the Molly Tuttle send off Friday. I have a new artist to follow. Might fine guitar work there. I will die trying to emulate it.

Comment by H-W Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:58 am

I had never heard of this law. It should be repealed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia3r-lnb7lU

Comment by DuPage Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 10:01 am

“Might” above should be “Mighty.”

Comment by H-W Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 10:06 am

It’s a great Bears Victory Monday!

Comment by Hot Taeks Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 10:29 am

In case anybody forgot the Cubs first Night Rain Out (8/8/88). Greg Maddux, Les Lancaster, Al Nipper and Jody Davis all got fined $500 for coming out of the clubhouse and sliding on the tarp during the rain delay.

Comment by Jerry Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 11:11 am

H-W,

If you like Molly Tuttle, you’ll Like A.J. Lee and Blue Summit. Molly’s brother, Sullivan, is a virtuoso guitar player in Lee’s band.

Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 11:11 am

Thanks, Curmudgeon. I left the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains 25 years ago, and really miss the music scene. I went to Virginia Tech at 18 and fell in love with mountain music. It is very hard to find excellent bluegrass here in West Central Illinois. I will look these folks up.

Comment by H-W Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 12:12 pm

I used to live near Lawrence and Pulaski. Trying to see if I have any contacts still from the neighborhood email list, very curious if all the floor drains backed up.

When buying insurance, basement coverage was an extra $50/month, with a capped $5k benefit. So, I figured they expected it to flood once every 100 months. Looks like we just dodged it…

Comment by North Park Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 12:46 pm

Either that video is one BAD sewer backup, or somebody hit a fire hydrant with no break-away shut-off valve. That’s NOT rain by itself there.

Da Bears!

Tony must have been sicker than we all thought, having to get that pacemaker. Wonder how much that impacted his coaching?

Comment by thisjustinagain Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 1:23 pm

We used to own a 2 flat in Chicago where our 2 sons and their wives lived. Sold it in 2020. 5000 block of North Lawndale, about two blocks north of Lawrence, five or six blocks east of Pulaski one block south of the north branch of the Chicago River. I wonder where exactly this video was taken.

Comment by Rertired SURS Employee Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 2:58 pm

That is just the rain, and that is just the sewer. Once the pipes get full the streets start backing up. This creates a “pressure head” that then pressurizes all of the water in the usually under-capacity gravity flow pipes.

Over an entire drainage basin, this pressure builds and builds until it blows a manhole lid at the lowest system elevation, like this.

Comment by North Park Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 5:05 pm

Nope; water pipe break per Fox News:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-pipe-burst-amid-torrential-164650377.html

Comment by thisjustinagain Tuesday, Sep 13, 22 @ 9:16 am

===Nope; water pipe break per Fox News:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-pipe-burst-amid-torrential-164650377.html===

Never trust Fox when there’s legit local news. Block Club (and city engineers) confirm - pressure build up, not water main breaks.

“Water mains do not explode,” (Chicago Water Department spokesperson Megan) Vidis said.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/09/13/what-caused-chicagos-urban-geysers-during-sundays-storm-experts-explain-the-rare-phenomenon/

Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Tuesday, Sep 13, 22 @ 11:50 am

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