SchaumburgStormer

What a monster

Hailer in Kane Co playing follow the leader through the western and southern burbs

And it’s now severe warned

Continued development working back westward as well

Rockford is about to get rolled by hail

Baseball size hail mentioned in the warning for the cell near Monroe Wi

My younger brother got the call for a liver/kidney transplant tonight. This will be his second transplant, had his first set of organs for 5 years before they started rejecting. When you hear about being the epitome of “high risk” when it comes to Covid, he is it. I found a bunch of old N95 masks in my toolbox and made sure they found their way to him. Since he has been on the list, he has already had 1 set of potential organs rejected by the surgeon due to potential COVID infection in the donor. It is very morbid, but the surgeon was saying that organs are actually harder to come by right now than normal, as a large majority of people are staying home. As such, people are not getting into the fatal auto accidents, homicides, etc at rates which would be considered “normal”. Thus the individuals who are passing are the COVID patients or those who have a strong likelihood of the infection even though they have not been lab confirmed. The transplant doctors are not treating these people as suitable organs donors. So hopefully these test clean in the morning, and we can get my bro back on the path to recovery. But this is just another ripple effect of the virus that the general population would never consider. Although I don’t know you as anything other than screen names; you are my weather family. If you find yourself with a spare moment, I would appreciate if you could toss one up to whatever higher power you subscribe to. Additionally, please sign up to be an organ donor. #****COVID

With trump pushing the social distancing guidelines out to the end of April, it is my assumption that pritzker keeps the state on lockdown for at least 2 additional weeks into mid-late April. Will be interesting to see if that huge jump of 1,100 cases is an aberration or another datapoint on an exponential infection rate. If we are 1,500+ tomorrow, it wouldn’t surprise me to see additional shutdowns or restrictions of businesses that were previously allowed to open.

18 additional deaths. Plus Joe Diffie died, reportedly from COVID 19 as well. Not a huge celebrity, but big in late 90’s country music for sure

Certainly not often you can say “good thing we were isolated at home due to a virus”, but it is sounding like that is the case in Jonesboro. Reports and aerial photos are showing heavy damage to the mall and business district, an area reportedly nearly empty due to virus precautions. Certainly numerous injuries and fatalities avoided. You would certainly normally consider a mall taking a direct hit at 5-6pm on a Saturday a worst case scenario.

Tightening up again NW of the old rotation, right over downtown

Hopefully it’s not simply cycling. If it drops another one it may be right in the metro

CC dropping now

And ramping up with each frame. Rockford is downstream if this thing stays down

Don’t see anything on CC, but it looks even tighter now NE of town

Tight couplet right on top of Oregon, IL

Cruising too. Moving NE @ 65mph

cell bear Oregon tightening up.

Yeah looking tighter, headed generally towards @cyclone77

Things starting to unzip now in W IL

Cell near Burlington, IA tornado warned. Near the radar hole

Rotation tightening up again