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Postby Papas on May 20th, 2004, 9:38 pm
Good news: Pauly hit 2 home runs today White Sox winning 10-3.
Bad news: My basements flooding like crazy.
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Postby Aero737 on May 21st, 2004, 12:54 am
Evo8ed-I do hope you don't drive 'rice'.

A lot of flooding is taking place. 4 inches reported here in norther Kane County tonight-Kane and DeKalb Counties seem hardest hit.
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Postby SfGaMownz on May 21st, 2004, 1:58 pm
It rained alot here, but it all dried up really fast except for some puddles in low lying areas.
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Postby w00dland on May 21st, 2004, 4:02 pm
We had a crazy downpoor this morning with a lot of nice looking lightning. I was in my 3rd hour and my teacher seemed more interested with the storm then teacher so we ended up watching it most of the hour.
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Postby DejaVuGurl1203 on May 21st, 2004, 4:46 pm
When I was in school earlier around 10:20 it got REALLY dark outside. It looked like it was going to storm really badly, but there wasn't even a drop of rain. It was pretty windy for a few minutes, though.
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Postby w00dland on May 21st, 2004, 6:37 pm
HOLY RAIN!

I was frissbee golfing this afternoon after school. We were in the wooded section of the course and when we came out (its on a big hill) we just saw black clouds, followed by rain clouds, followed by more black clouds. It seemed to have come out of nowhere. We dashed to the car and the rain is just stopping now, at 630. It was down pouring for a good 20/30 minutes.
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Postby EVOed8 on May 22nd, 2004, 2:29 pm
aero737 wrote:Evo8ed-I do hope you don't drive 'rice'.

A lot of flooding is taking place. 4 inches reported here in norther Kane County tonight-Kane and DeKalb Counties seem hardest hit.


There's rice, and there is rice. Technically.. I guess, you could call my car "rice" due to it's Japanese manufacturer. Either than that, I don't see why I would classify as rice. My exhaust isn't overly loud, my car remains decal-less, I don't floor it at every stoplight, and most of all, my car is FAST. Any questions?

As far as "American Muscle"... that's all a bunch of bull. I beat Camaros and Mustangs all day at the track, no problem.
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Postby mschulz5 on May 22nd, 2004, 2:43 pm
Cubs Win 7-1! Glendon Rusch goes 7 2/3 for the win, wow we have a good pitching staff.
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Postby Aero737 on May 22nd, 2004, 3:54 pm
EVOed8 wrote:
As far as "American Muscle"... that's all a bunch of bull. I beat Camaros and Mustangs all day at the track, no problem.


1st-I classify rice as a car with a lot of 'mods' that don't do anything.

2nd-Can't you tune Camaros and Mustangs to go a LOT faster than what you drive (I'm assuming it's an 4 cyl.). Not trying to start a race war (I respect someone who knows how to race and who acually takes their racing to the track) but I've seen plenty of Mustangs and Camaros run mid to low 12's.
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Postby EVOed8 on May 22nd, 2004, 9:07 pm
aero737 wrote:
EVOed8 wrote:
As far as "American Muscle"... that's all a bunch of bull. I beat Camaros and Mustangs all day at the track, no problem.


1st-I classify rice as a car with a lot of 'mods' that don't do anything.

2nd-Can't you tune Camaros and Mustangs to go a LOT faster than what you drive (I'm assuming it's an 4 cyl.). Not trying to start a race war (I respect someone who knows how to race and who acually takes their racing to the track) but I've seen plenty of Mustangs and Camaros run mid to low 12's.


Haha, we have the same classification for rice then. My car is actually stock, no mods.

As far as tuning, the Evo8 is one of the hottest tuning cars out there due to it's 2.0 liter 4 cylinder powerplant that has been around for 14 years. 13.2 stock is a killer time for my car, but with $4k in mods I could be running high 11s. It's as easy as that. No drag slicks needed, stock tires do fine. To get a mustang or Camaro into the 11s, you usually need some type of drag slick, and a heavily built engine. I guess that's the short of it... PM me if you have any questions.

I know plenty of people who do rice mods to their Civics and it just makes them loud. I'm not like that. :D
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Postby tacoking1664 on May 22nd, 2004, 10:45 pm
mschulz5 wrote:Cubs Win 7-1! Glendon Rusch goes 7 2/3 for the win, wow we have a good pitching staff.



Yeah, when you can have a guy that was called up to be in the bullpen start a game for you and nearly shut the Cards down you know you have a good pitching staff.


Clement gets the start tomorrow. :)


Yay! My Wood jersey finally came. :)
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Postby Aero737 on May 23rd, 2004, 8:03 pm
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WFUS53 KLOT 240101
TORLOT
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
801 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A


* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS


* UNTIL 830 PM CDT


* AT 801 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG ROTATION IN A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR OVER GURNEE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.


* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ZION AROUND 810 PM CDT.


THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THIS AREA.


GO TO THE BASEMENT AND SEEK SHELTER UNDER THE STAIRS OR UNDER A HEAVY
PIECE OF FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN
INTERIOR CLOSET...BATHROOM...OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


LAT...LON 4246 8811 4226 8802 4238 8734 4260 8743
$$


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Just thought I would post that. Anyone there>
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Postby SfGaMownz on May 23rd, 2004, 8:09 pm
I was watching that storm blow up on Doppler Radar, looks pretty nasty, to bad no storms are over my area :cry:.
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Postby Papas on May 23rd, 2004, 9:12 pm
I thaught it was pretty cool last night at SFGAm the sky was purple and red :).
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Postby SfGaMownz on May 23rd, 2004, 9:22 pm
Yeah, thats how it was Friday, except instead of purple and red it was green and black.
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Postby w00dland on May 23rd, 2004, 9:29 pm
Green sky is one of the eeriest things I can think of.
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Postby Aero737 on May 23rd, 2004, 11:37 pm
Green skys are caused by light refracting in hailstones.
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Postby Galvan on May 24th, 2004, 12:59 am
I got some badass pics today, There was a Tornado in my area and i got the beginings of it :).
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Postby chiatrain on May 24th, 2004, 12:48 pm
The Cubs take a share of the lead for 1st, after beating the Cardinals last night. I got to Wrigley Field at about 4pm for the 7:05 start. Rain began to trickle down before the game, but it was a nice night. It was Photo Day at Wrigley, and several players(Derrek Lee, Todd Wellemeyer, Jason DuBois, Glendon Rusch, Carlos Zambrano, Kyle Farnsworth, and Joe Borowski) were there.
ESPN might have caught this, but the fans threw back the Pujols home-run ball onto the field. The Ramirez HR was huge, and it was a good game in the end.
The night was full of StL/Cardinals bashing, even on the midnight train-ride home.
I could not get all of the photos from last night up (interesting things on/off the field) but some photos from Photo Day can be found at http://community.webshots.com/user/chiatrain
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Postby SFGA 11 on May 24th, 2004, 10:02 pm
The NBA Play-offs are getting exciting. There has been many great games so far, with game winning shots etc..
Detroit VS. Indiana is 1-1 and it sall about defense in that series.
Lakers VS. T-Wolvez is also 1-1. Both series are exciting.
I want T-Wolves, Pacers in the Finals.
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