interesting bears game. offense looked anemic in the first half. defense kept them in the game. once fields was allowed to roll out, things started opening up. once we scored the first touchdown, the team played with renewed confidence. the weather was like the closer, with hard rain coming down during the final minutes of the fourth making it all but impossible for the 49ers to do anything offensively. the big question is santos. he missed two PATs. was it the weather, or is something wrong with him?
- West Side the Best Side - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:18 am:
Hit the first of three weekends of Oktoberfests at local breweries. Rain not nearly as bad as the city in the western suburbs. (Maybe the city needed it to put out the fires in the hellhole.) Looked like Soldier Field should have used the White Sox Sodfather instead of the slip and slide.
Luckily and thankfully not flooded. Memorable Bears game, the win and all the rain/water on the field. Was great to have the other team make all those costly penalties.
In case anybody forgot the Cubs first Night Rain Out (8/8/88). Greg Maddux, Les Lancaster, Al Nipper and Jody Davis all got fined $500 for coming out of the clubhouse and sliding on the tarp during the rain delay.
Thanks, Curmudgeon. I left the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains 25 years ago, and really miss the music scene. I went to Virginia Tech at 18 and fell in love with mountain music. It is very hard to find excellent bluegrass here in West Central Illinois. I will look these folks up.
I used to live near Lawrence and Pulaski. Trying to see if I have any contacts still from the neighborhood email list, very curious if all the floor drains backed up.
When buying insurance, basement coverage was an extra $50/month, with a capped $5k benefit. So, I figured they expected it to flood once every 100 months. Looks like we just dodged it…
We used to own a 2 flat in Chicago where our 2 sons and their wives lived. Sold it in 2020. 5000 block of North Lawndale, about two blocks north of Lawrence, five or six blocks east of Pulaski one block south of the north branch of the Chicago River. I wonder where exactly this video was taken.
That is just the rain, and that is just the sewer. Once the pipes get full the streets start backing up. This creates a āpressure headā that then pressurizes all of the water in the usually under-capacity gravity flow pipes.
Over an entire drainage basin, this pressure builds and builds until it blows a manhole lid at the lowest system elevation, like this.
- former cubs fan - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:05 am:
interesting bears game. offense looked anemic in the first half. defense kept them in the game. once fields was allowed to roll out, things started opening up. once we scored the first touchdown, the team played with renewed confidence. the weather was like the closer, with hard rain coming down during the final minutes of the fourth making it all but impossible for the 49ers to do anything offensively. the big question is santos. he missed two PATs. was it the weather, or is something wrong with him?
- West Side the Best Side - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:18 am:
Hit the first of three weekends of Oktoberfests at local breweries. Rain not nearly as bad as the city in the western suburbs. (Maybe the city needed it to put out the fires in the hellhole.) Looked like Soldier Field should have used the White Sox Sodfather instead of the slip and slide.
- Langhorne - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:18 am:
BEARS won, however raggedy.
GREEN BAY lost, a division game.
Makes for a good day.
- Big Dipper - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:44 am:
They are lucky Riot Fest wasn’t this past weekend.
- Grandson of Man - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:45 am:
Luckily and thankfully not flooded. Memorable Bears game, the win and all the rain/water on the field. Was great to have the other team make all those costly penalties.
- Amalia - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:52 am:
all that flooding is just terrifying. hope no one was hurt.
- H-W - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 9:58 am:
Thanks Rich, for the Molly Tuttle send off Friday. I have a new artist to follow. Might fine guitar work there. I will die trying to emulate it.
- DuPage - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 10:01 am:
I had never heard of this law. It should be repealed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia3r-lnb7lU
- H-W - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 10:06 am:
“Might” above should be “Mighty.”
- Hot Taeks - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 10:29 am:
It’s a great Bears Victory Monday!
- Jerry - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 11:11 am:
In case anybody forgot the Cubs first Night Rain Out (8/8/88). Greg Maddux, Les Lancaster, Al Nipper and Jody Davis all got fined $500 for coming out of the clubhouse and sliding on the tarp during the rain delay.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 11:11 am:
H-W,
If you like Molly Tuttle, you’ll Like A.J. Lee and Blue Summit. Molly’s brother, Sullivan, is a virtuoso guitar player in Lee’s band.
- H-W - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 12:12 pm:
Thanks, Curmudgeon. I left the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains 25 years ago, and really miss the music scene. I went to Virginia Tech at 18 and fell in love with mountain music. It is very hard to find excellent bluegrass here in West Central Illinois. I will look these folks up.
- North Park - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 12:46 pm:
I used to live near Lawrence and Pulaski. Trying to see if I have any contacts still from the neighborhood email list, very curious if all the floor drains backed up.
When buying insurance, basement coverage was an extra $50/month, with a capped $5k benefit. So, I figured they expected it to flood once every 100 months. Looks like we just dodged it…
- thisjustinagain - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 1:23 pm:
Either that video is one BAD sewer backup, or somebody hit a fire hydrant with no break-away shut-off valve. That’s NOT rain by itself there.
Da Bears!
Tony must have been sicker than we all thought, having to get that pacemaker. Wonder how much that impacted his coaching?
- Rertired SURS Employee - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 2:58 pm:
We used to own a 2 flat in Chicago where our 2 sons and their wives lived. Sold it in 2020. 5000 block of North Lawndale, about two blocks north of Lawrence, five or six blocks east of Pulaski one block south of the north branch of the Chicago River. I wonder where exactly this video was taken.
- North Park - Monday, Sep 12, 22 @ 5:05 pm:
That is just the rain, and that is just the sewer. Once the pipes get full the streets start backing up. This creates a āpressure headā that then pressurizes all of the water in the usually under-capacity gravity flow pipes.
Over an entire drainage basin, this pressure builds and builds until it blows a manhole lid at the lowest system elevation, like this.
- thisjustinagain - Tuesday, Sep 13, 22 @ 9:16 am:
Nope; water pipe break per Fox News:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-pipe-burst-amid-torrential-164650377.html
- Joe Bidenopolous - Tuesday, Sep 13, 22 @ 11:50 am:
===Nope; water pipe break per Fox News:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-pipe-burst-amid-torrential-164650377.html===
Never trust Fox when there’s legit local news. Block Club (and city engineers) confirm - pressure build up, not water main breaks.
“Water mains do not explode,” (Chicago Water Department spokesperson Megan) Vidis said.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/09/13/what-caused-chicagos-urban-geysers-during-sundays-storm-experts-explain-the-rare-phenomenon/