SchaumburgStormer

Tight couplet in extreme N DeKalb Co

Cell near Streator getting that look

River already the highest it’s been in years. My new home overlooks the Kishwaukee, luckily is high enough to not have any issues. Another 1-3 is going to cause some major issues

3.74” storm total

Going to need to FFW our here soon. Been pound town onto already saturated ground

Couplet has tightened agai.

Some big bangers this morning. Nice to get woken up by thunder.

I have ran the furnace, AC, and had the windows open all during the last week. Now back to furnace. This is dumb.

Can really tell that restriction fatigue is building around me. People are basically going about their daily lives, and even the court system which had all but stopped to prevent the spread, is working on opening the doors again.

5” gone by 5pm. Wish I had a time lapse edit: it’s like cyclone read my mind...

5.1” here and already melted down over half of that.

Stacking nicely here, pushing 5”

I think if there is any light in the darkness that is this dark cavern of our economy, it’s that this crisis will show average Americans that small business is important and vital to our way of life. Problem being, many many many small businesses won’t survive to see the other side.

Luckily for me, construction was allowed to continue at my new house. I was in an interesting position when my current dwelling was under contract to sell (April 24 close), but my new home was no where near ready to be inhabited. Had all construction work been prohibited, I would have been in the interesting position of deciding to violate the stay at home order, violate the construction prohibition, or whatever legal consequence may occur from failing to sell my home as contractually agreed. Due to this, I have had to make a couple trips to my local hardware store to grab some life/safety stuff for my new home. Handrails, electrical boxes, etc. It is insane how many people are there buying things which would be tough to consider essential, like flowers, mulch, etc. It seems that people are slowly getting back to normal. I even heard one person mention “cases are slowing down in Illinois so I decided to venture out”. This is the equivalent of stopping your antibiotic course halfway through because you feel better. I firmly believe, and you can here Lightfoot and Pritzker laying the groundwork, that this stay at home order will be extended again into mid-late May. While some of these orders may be confusing or dubious in execution (looking at you Michigan), I don’t think that this is the “beginning of the totalitarian state” as some of my friends Facebook posts would lead you to believe. I am frustrated like everyone, and I have a hard time justifying the fact that I cannot walk 18 holes by myself, but can contact 15 people in a liquor store. But I get it. I can walk 18 holes by myself and be confident I will be responsible. However the general public as a whole is stupid, and if you give them an inch, they will take a mile.

That knife... stop twisting it.

Just hedge south and weaker and you will be fine.

+sn under these squalls. Near white our due to big flake size. May be the best rates of the year, for five minutes or so...

Couplet continues to ramp up, with debris sig getting larger on cc

TDS

Tightening quickly. Nothing on CC yet edit: strike that, looks like a small tds on cc

Going to be a close call for the areas just hit but the first monster

Training large, violent tornados. Brutal

Don’t get much more textbook than this.

I think we answered the question as to if it was OTG.