Articles filed under Severe Weather
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Steps to take after your basement floodsApr 09, 2015 1:00 am - Daily Herald staff report Your basement is full of water that not only ruined your carpet but could be polluted with harmful bacteria. What's your next move? Put safety...
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Lightning strikes blamed for Mount Prospect and Des Plaines firesApr 09, 2015 1:00 am - Lighting strikes are to blame for fires Thursday morning in Mount Prospect and Des Plaines, fire officials said. Mount Prospect firefighters responding at 10:45 a.m. to...
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Thursday's storms in northern Illinois as seen through social mediaApr 09, 2015 1:00 am - As severe storms swept through northern Illinois — including tornadoes, one of which killed a person in the small town of Fairdale — people posted scenes of the scary sk...
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Tornadoes kill 1, decimate small town of Fairdale on Route 72Apr 09, 2015 1:00 am - Supercell thunderstorms produced a large tornado that touched down Thursday night in northern Illinois, killing one person and injuring eight others in one tiny communit...
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Tornado watch issued for area until 11 p.m.; heavy rain, hail remain a threatApr 08, 2015 1:00 am - The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch through 11 p.m. today for the Chicago suburbs and most of north and central Illinois. Damaging winds, large hail...
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Images: Rare spring storm hits CaliforniaApr 08, 2015 1:00 am - LOS ANGELES - The rainwater from a rare spring storm that pooled on Gilbert Jaffe's front sidewalk could be seen as a nuisance, but in California's extreme drought condi...
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Images: Oklahoma residents start cleanup after devastating tornadoMar 26, 2015 1:00 am - TULSA, Okla. - The first batch of severe weather in this year's tornado season devastated an Oklahoma mobile home park, as storms across the area damaged buildings, tore...
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Winter's not done with us yet, with snow in forecast todayMar 22, 2015 1:00 am - Spring officially began on Friday, but the Chicago area is in store for at least one more blast of snow and ice before winter moves on. One to four inches of snow is exp...
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Constable: Runner shirtless every winter dayMar 01, 2015 6:45 am - My friend's story sounds apocryphal. On a day when the temperature tops out at a frigid 5 and the windchill dips below zero, he claims to see a bare-chested man in short...
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We missed big snow, but wintry mess heading our wayMar 01, 2015 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A winter storm moving across Illinois brought as much as 8 inches of snow to central parts of the state. But the Chicago area is just continuing to d...