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4. Glad you're okay. We didn't have any damage here (Waukegan/Wadsworth).

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Wed Aug 5, 2015, 09:47 PM

Aug 2015

Sorry to hear about your trees, but at least you are safe. We were in the basement for about 20-30 minutes. Was interesting rounding up all of our cats and getting them down there. We couldn't even hear the sirens, though, we knew about the tornado warning from the weather app on our cell phones.

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Grayslake F1 tornado [View all] MerryBlooms Aug 2015 OP

It were a wicked storm in southwest Cook. Luckily, no ChairmanAgnostic Aug 2015 #1

. MerryBlooms Aug 2015 #2

Wow. murielm99 Aug 2015 #3

Glad you're okay. We didn't have any damage here (Waukegan/Wadsworth). City Lights Aug 2015 #4