Tornado Hits The Chicago Area, And It's Only February
 

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This was a very crazy weather day here in the Chicago area. We had one of our warmest winter days in history (74 degrees) for this area to having tornadoes and small hail and tomorrow it'll be cold enough for it to snow. I get scared or get anxiety attacks when the weather goes crazy. So I left my above garage apartment for the main house where my mom and step dad is just as the tornado sirens sounded.

According to the live weather forecast, the northern part of my town took a hit from a tornado, and the next town to the northwest. Small hail and gusty winds hit hard. Now I'm in my apartment watching the local news of storm reports and making this message.

I'm just glad my best friend is safe and OK, but I'm worried about my aunt, because her area (my former area) took at hit from a tornado and she's not responding to her phone. I hope she gets back to me, but she is known to not pay attention to her phone. Maybe she's seeing if my grandma is safe.

Oh, no! I hope your aunt and grandma are okay.

My town got hit by a tornado back in 2020 and it traumatized me so I totally understand your anxiety.

I was out on my porch watching the storm - took some vide of it too. Sirens were going off in every town. It was pretty legit weather for about 20 minutes or so. Waubonsee CC took a hit and spun some cars around I guess.

They're OK. My aunt texted me back saying she was OK and will call me some time today.

My old town of Geneva took a big hit; trees down on houses. Where I live now, I heard this rumbling noise as if it was a tornado nearby which there was one close by.

Man it got COLD! Yesterday we had one of the warmest winter days in Chicago history and now it's 22 degrees. Last night I was wearing shorts to now having sweats on.

Early that day I was out on a 71 degree bike ride down the Fox River trails in Geneva with my dog in a backpack. By that evening it was like 45 degrees and raining sideways.

Yikes, glad it sounds like you're fine and those you were worried about are, too. It has been such a strange winter.

Good to hear your relatives are all right. Twisters can be scary; I mean I've only seen tiny ones on the ground a few times, but I can imagine.

I used to ride my bike down that route every day when I lived there. I would go from the park in St. Charles all the way to downtown Batavia and back. I would do that route in about 2 hours every day when it was warm enough, even if it was 95 outside.

And yes it did get cold. According to the weather people, we went from a high of 74 at 3pm yesterday to 20 at 10 this morning.

I talked to my aunt and yes, everyone is OK, even my 20 year old cousin who was told by my aunt not to go his college in Sugar Grove and it's a good thing he listened to her, because the school now has down trees all over the school yard.

Yeah I guess Waubonsee had cars spun around and all that....