Chicago, I'm just sayin.....

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I just heard that because of strong thunderstorms and the possibility of tornadoes they stopped a Bears game and the fans left the stadium. If that had been an Alabama game we would have had a time out when it got close enough to see and then the game would have resumed after it had passed over.

Yes, really. Tornadoes are horrible and they tore up Tuscaloosa a few years ago and killed people. We take them seriously. But you know that theres Alabama fans watching that news story right now and calling them wimps, at the very least.

Also, the point of this post isn't to hate on Chicago or the fact that they did the sensible thing. Other Southerners will get my point of this. I'm not being mean about it at all. But until Big Al gets sucked up into the funnel cloud and dropped on a road in front of a moving vehicle like that cow in "Twister", we gonna keep right on playing. (And I don't know why I use the word "we", not being on the team or really being a fan, it's just what you do)

Bears were down 10... needed to do something

I totally get the point! I have passed the time during tornado warnings standing out on the porch enjoying the wind. When the tornado struck West End in the late '60s, I was 3 years old. We were visiting my aunt, and my aunt, who lived near the fairgrounds, took me out on her back screened-in porch to look at it.

But the thing that worries me is that it was tornadoes--in November in the upper Midwest. That's just wrong.

I remember the tornadoes you are talking about. I lived in West End then. It took out Double L BBQ. That was a long tornado night. My mother would pull the mattress out on the side of the bed and prop it up with two chairs and I'd have to get under that during tornadoes. Usually I enjoyed it and took my Barbies and junk under there, but I remember that night it was so bad that they made me keep staying under there and I hated it I got so bored!

When we lived in Forest Park we had a closet that was under the stairs (yeah, like Harry Potter) and it was really big. I would put football and bike helmets on the kids and we would all get in there. It was so big that there were toys and a desk in there and they played school in it. The one time that it got really bad though, we didn't have time to get in there. It was normal weather and no warnings or anything and the oldest was in school at SFX and the other three were home with me. It got black all of a sudden. I turned it off the kids show to see if James Spann was saying anything and nothing was there then WHAM the rain and wind hit. I went to the window and then went to grab the kids and put them in the closet but just then the lights went out and I heard a loud crash. Then it stopped. I looked out a second later and it was getting lighter but the big, huge tree in our yard had fell and it crushed our van. The news people filmed it and used it to talk about the unexpected tornado. My neighbor across the street had to go get my little boy from school that afternoon.

I got caught in another tornado once going to pick him up from OLS from Forest Park. I had my baby daughter with me in the car seat and was coming down I think it was 8th to get on Red Mountain and it got black back over downtown. No warnings then either. I pulled into this gas station there on the corner on the right and grabbed my baby and ran in just as the wind was starting and the guy was screaming for everybody to get in the back. The girls did but the boys ran to the door to look for it. Finally, they came back there, it got loud, the lights went out and we were all praying real loud with this one crying lady. Then it stopped and I went and picked him up. Husband was working at you know which restaurant on Southside and the chairs and tables they put out there got blown up by the fountain. The stupid boy that worked there washing dishes ran out to get them and he made him come back and got the people away from the windows to the back. Then it was over. You know who was in his office the whole time and missed it until they lost power. His office was concrete block.

At first, I thought that you were talking about the band. I've always wondered what attracts all the wind to Chicago. There are also times when I wonder if there's another windy city in the world somewhere. Chicago looks like it would be an interesting city to visit, but I'm glad I live where I do.

oh, and were called the windy city because when the world fair was in Chicago they said that chicagoians(SP) were full of them selfs!
While Chicago is widely known as the "Windy City", it is not the windiest city in the United States: Milton, Massachusetts is.[2] Chicago is not significantly windier than any other U.S. city. For example, the average annual wind speed of Chicago is: 10.3 mph (16.6 km/h); Milton is: 15.4 mph (24.8 km/h); Boston: 12.4 mph (20.0 km/h); New York City, Central Park: 9.3 mph (15.0 km/h); and Los Angeles: 7.5 mph (12.1 km/h).[3]

The following "windy city" explanation is from the Freeborn County Standard of Albert Lea, Minnesota, on November 20, 1892:[4]

“ Chicago has been called the “windy” city, the term being used metaphorically to make out that Chicagoans were braggarts. The city is losing this reputation, for the reason that as people got used to it they found most of her claims to be backed up by facts. As usual, people go to extremes in this thing also, and one can tell a stranger almost anything about Chicago today and feel that he believes it implicitly.
But in another sense Chicago is actually earning the title of the “windy” city. It is one of the effects of the tall buildings which engineers and architects apparently did not foresee that the wind is sucked down into the streets. Walk past the Masonic Temple or the Auditorium any day even though it may be perfectly calm elsewhere, and you will meet with a lively breeze at the base of the building that will compel you to put your hand to your hat.

more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of ... dy_City%22