We had the storm from hell last night.  We get a lot of tornado warnings during the summer, a lot of thunderstorms, being in the Midwest and all.  But last night was officially scary.  The entire area was under a tornado watch.  All of the tv stations cut out and had that scary computerized voice telling people to get in the basement, evacuate their cars.  Then the local weather people would come on: No, really, this applies to you people living in the city too.  If you live downtown, go to the lowest floor of your building, yadda yadda yadda.  The electricity was off and on, and all you could hear was the wail of tornado sirens.  They were tracking the funnel clouds from the western suburbs to the city, block by block.  I've never heard of funnel clouds in the city proper.  Crazy stuff.  90 mile an hour winds, funnel clouds (I don't think any actually touched down) and sirens.  Cat was not happy.  Uhg.  

Here are some pics from the Trib:

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