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If you believe in omens…
Wednesday, Aug 10, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller * The National Conference of State Legislatures is holding its annual legislative summit in Chicago this year. The big Illinois legislative reception is tonight at the Field Museum. Lots of Illinois legislators are tweeting about it. But this one caught my eye…
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- Stooges - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 3:16 pm:
Twister? That ain’t no stinking twister!
- Amalia - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 3:20 pm:
never heard of a landspout and it’s got me mighty nervous! came out of no where, no radar warning, did cause some damage.
- Thunder Fred - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
The Illinois Legislators must be happy to have distractions so they don’t have to talk about the Illinois budget or pension liabilities.
- Formerly Known as Frenchie M - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 3:28 pm:
Well, with Rauner in hiding — furious, I assume, at how Trump is stealing and messing with his “outsider” message — it’s omens all the way down.
- Anon221 - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 3:28 pm:
And don’t forget… the sky is falling, too!!!
http://www.space.com/33696-perseid-meteor-shower-2016-pictures-gallery.html
- illini - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 3:43 pm:
Is ALEC going to be there as well?
- northsideNoMore - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 4:11 pm:
Sadly Shooting are the norm in Chitown…now the tornado and the legislative reception that’s real excitement.
- lech W - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 4:22 pm:
The Annual Legislative Summit visitors will not notice the violence or murders as they visit Navy Pier or Millennium Park, or the Shedd, or the Field or the Mag mile.
- Union Thug Gramma - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 5:32 pm:
First, it wasn’t a “twister”, it was a land spout, some damage by Hawthorne Park.
Second, when we begin investing in the areas of Englewood, Austin, etc., there could be jobs. When weve done this in the past, violence has gone down…most people prefer a job to hustling.
- Dr X - Wednesday, Aug 10, 16 @ 6:24 pm:
We better hope ALEC doesn’t come to town.
- That Guy - Thursday, Aug 11, 16 @ 8:53 am:
Last I saw Alec was busy at work in his Springfield IRMA office. Not sure why so many commenters are worried about whether he went to NCSL or not.
- Secret Square - Thursday, Aug 11, 16 @ 9:15 am:
A “landspout” is a small, weak funnel cloud that forms over land, under conditions similar to those that spawn waterspouts. Classic tornadoes descend from a rotating parent thunderstorm (supercell); landspouts form up from the ground as a result of a wind shift or surge of cold or warm air. Because landspouts aren’t connected to high-level rotation in a thunderstorm, radar can’t detect them. Although they are officially considered tornadoes in weather records, most landspouts are weak and cause little or no damage.