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Malacka11

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  1. Flooding is pretty ass in the inner west suburbs. Saw a couple cars flooded out under bridges down Roosevelt Road.
  2. Finally, after what feels like a week of being missed by all the rain by irritatingly small margins, it's my turn to get soaked. Hopefully this shit keeps right on training, it's coming down good finally.
  3. Yeah, I've been checking Lake Michigan temperatures daily. It's the new snow storm tracking, if not a little anemic . I'm hoping if we get legit heat wave or two within the next month then we could make a run for at least 70°F.
  4. Bring it on we can't waste any more time getting LM to swimming temperatures
  5. Biggest snow event of the year
  6. Second day of getting missed by the popcorn by mere miles
  7. Anyone know what kind of clouds these are
  8. At least you can see some clouds above the haze today
  9. Oh yeah I'm not complaining, it's just amusing to me. I'm all for OT discussions other than maybe in historical threads. That said, best climo for real. Wouldn't mind a real heat wave sooner than later to start warming the lake up for dunes season.
  10. This has got to be one of the funnier warning areas I've seen so far. Unfortunately I am about to drive directly through it from east to west.
  11. This weather is so nice it's not even on the shelf in the first place
  12. Wow, small world dude. Kind of cool to think about though. So far I've replaced my windshield and my mirror. The mirror I managed to do myself relatively easily. That leaves the the quarter glass which I've ordered online and will need someone to install and then eventually a new fender. For now I just took a crowbar and pried the fender back out far enough so that it lets the driver's door travel freely again. Considering the fender was already rusted to shit and I was looking at replacing it this summer anyway, I hardly count that as a loss. Really, I'm just glad that I was able to drive the car home because the cost of a tow (my insurance plan does cover most towing costs but idk about a 200+ mile job, I ought to check up on that) and a lift for my friends and I would easily have cost more than all of the repairs I've had to do. Between that and the fact that I didn't die + now have a one in a million story to tell isn't a horrible deal I suppose. Obviously I would never ever want this to happen again but the fact that it did and I got off easy in the grand scheme of things is definitely something I am thankful for. Cheers though. Hopefully our paths cross again in the future.
  13. Couple of updates regarding the other day's chase: 1. The tornado that hit us was an EF1, max winds of ~110mph. The messed up part is that it formed less than a mile before it hit us and dissipated less than a mile after. That fucker JDAM-missile style tracked us down. Makes me feel a bit better about being hit that we can't have possibly seen it given that it formed only after we were between houses and only a few hundred meters away. 2. There was a much larger EF3 with max winds of ~160mph forming right behind the wall of wind driven rain that we thought was the tornado. All in all, these new revelations make me feel a little less incompetent. Yes I fucked up, but in the heat of the moment, we probably did as well as we could with the cards we were dealt. Here's the link to one more video, showing exactly what we were running from and why it was impossible to actually see what was going on. https://youtube.com/shorts/7pvTvyIsgzE?feature=share
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