Severe Weather 8/4

[FRD714]

Most of us got hit by this powerful storm this evening. What exactly happened in your area?

What looked to be a normal summer storm turned out to be more than that. The rain started coming down hard, and before you know it, the sirens started going off. The first time I've heard them go off other then weekly tests. There was hardly any wind though, so I just stood there. It ended up just being some hard rain, and a hell of a light show. And there was some loud bangs, but it didn't match up to the storm we had last August.

[[jonrev]]

Was about to leave for a car show this evening when it started raining, glad I didn't go. Not much other than lightning here, but further south got the worst of it.

[RBull4life]

In Elk Grove it was nasty. At 7:30 it was so dark I thought it was 9:30. Heavy rain, some good gusts of wind, and an incredible light show, all while the sirens were going off.
It is now 10:48, and there still, at times, some impressive lighting streaking across the sky.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

It was absolutely amazing, and crazy. I was out in Homer Glen at a friend's house, and when I saw the clouds in the distance, I thought oh crap, this is going to be a NASTY storm. Minutes before that, I'd heard on the radio there were tornado warnings for Cook and DuPage counties. The clouds began to pass over us, and we were staring at a particular pair of clouds... they were rotating, and I could've sworn I saw a weird green flash. The rotation was DIRECTLY above us. That was my first time ever seeing a funnel cloud... And as that funnel cloud passed over us, it suddenly got EXTREMELY windy and dark. Oooh, it was so scary and exciting. Then the siren started going off. It was a real long and nasty thunderstorm too... when it eventually ended a couple hours later, there was still lightning all around us. We were driving home, and we went past a few sections with no power. As I had already heard, the power in my town was completely out, and there were fallen trees and tons of branches on the ground. Our Obama sign even flew away. When I got home even MORE storms started firing up, it was absolutely nuts. It felt like a never-ending storm.

So, the power in my town went out sometime in the evening, and I'm not sure when it came back on, I'd say between 3-8 AM. I thought we'd be waiting much longer than that. That was probably the best, most exciting/crazy storm I've ever experienced. Even the storms in the morning were interesting.

Walking through my neighborhood last night was like a ghost town... especially during the lightning... SO scary. I loved it.