grace0418
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Fri Jun-19-09 10:30 PM
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Holy mother of crap. I seriously thought I was going to die in a very bizarre way tonight. |
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The storms in Chicago were OUTRAGEOUS today, so naturally I had to drive from the city out to the Western suburbs for a graduation party. On a Friday, past Wrigley Field when the Cubs were playing at home, with downed tree limbs and flooding everywhere.
A trip that should take 40-50 minutes took me 2 hours and 20 minutes. That was all kinds of awesome.
Anyway, I finally got off the expressway and I was driving through the burbs on my way to the restaurant when a second round of storms hit. It was getting so bad that I was starting to look for place to pull over. That's when I saw all the American flags decorating the street lights every 50 feet or so start SHOOTING out of their flag holders and into the street like patriotic javelins. I seriously thought "Okay the paramedics are going to arrive and find me with an American flag jutting out of my chest." That was freaky. I don't understand how the wind picked up so strong and so specifically that it threw all the flags across the street in the same way.
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Fri Jun-19-09 10:39 PM
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1. And do the street lights go out when you pass by? |
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Fri Jun-19-09 10:47 PM
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3. No, but I have a friend to whom that happens all the time. Does that mean something |
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Fri Jun-19-09 10:41 PM
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i'm glad you made it to the restaurant safely
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Fri Jun-19-09 10:48 PM
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4. Thanks. I was glad too! |
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That is definitely NOT the way I want to go.
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Fri Jun-19-09 10:52 PM
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Your husband is a dead man.
I think the payback stakes just got a lot higher. ;)
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Fri Jun-19-09 11:01 PM
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7. LOL! I *KNOW*, right? Seriously, if I had died I would totally come back to haunt |
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Fri Jun-19-09 10:58 PM
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Edited on Fri Jun-19-09 11:04 PM by hibbing
Hi, Glad you made it safe. The description of flag holders were nice. Reminded me of Damien Omen II where there is some kind of satanic induced storm launched I believe a cross comes down down right a priest's chest chest.
Peace
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Fri Jun-19-09 11:03 PM
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8. That's exactly what it looked like–some kind of invisible demonic force launching |
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those flags out into the street. They had really sharp looking decorative tops too.
Thanks!
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