So how's the weather out by you?

[acmespaceship]

A little trouble on the Eisenhower Expressway and the Blue Line L this morning.  Not to mention the freight line.  It's nice to have a canal through Oak Park, really classes up the joint.
We live close enough to the fondly-named "Eisenhower Canyon" that normally there's a fair amount of expressway noise, not noticeable indoors with the windows closed but a constant companion when we're outdoors.  Today, the Ike is silent.  And on the back porch I can hear all the neighbors.  And of course that means they can hear us.  I think I prefer the Ike.

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[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! What hit?

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

We were scheduled to take our younger daughter to Naperville. We got off the TriState at Irving Park because the tollway was a parking lot. Irving Park west of Mannheim was closed because of flooding. Mannheim south was under construction. Grand west was flooded. We finally gave up, made our way to River Road and got back on the TriState northbound in Rosemont. The Des Plaines River was often within inches of Des Plaines River Road.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Ah, that was why they wouldn't let us on the Ike this afternoon. We were driving from the west suburbs to help friends rescue books from their flooded basement. Normal travel time: 45 minutes; today's travel time: 3 hours.