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White Sox Baseball...Win or kill the fans watching. :banghead Oye.. what a game!!

Yea.. it's just south of 30 and north of Renwick. If the sky had turned the 29 people that died might have had a chance. From what people have told us it was raining and the sheets of rain literally blocked the view of the tornado. The thing was nearly a mile wide.. imagine that. 90+ friggin degrees at the end of August. That s*** just isn't supposed to happen.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:33 PM) Mmmmmmmm. And there was another church destroyed, the one my grandma goes to. Further down on 59. St. Mary's or Mary Immaculate Something. I tell you, though, that was the uglies church ever before it was destroyed. It looked like a dead elephant. I think that St. Mary's might be the one Kyyle is talking about. You might be right. I know most of them had been turned because of structural issues that the church could not afford to be repaired and were sold to private people. I think St Mary's is down 59 closer to the route 30 turn. And yes, it's ugly.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:30 PM) Is it smart to purchase a vehicle for the once a year vacation or the 99% regular miles? I don't know if it's smart but it's kinda what we did. We have the Jeep for hauling stuff and for the winter. We have my Galant for mostly everyday driving. And we have the Vette for fun.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:26 PM) Yep, I know exactly where that is. My grandparents were fine--and allegedly standing on their porch watching the whole thing. But, some friends lost their house. The most interesting story was one family had their entire house destroyed accept one wall and a china cabinet that was intact along with everything else in the cabinet. It was weird. My mom also has some bricks from PHS--she graduated from there. Wow.. amazing. We've had 3 massive hail storms and every time I have run to the basement skeered out of my mind. The wind out there is fierce also. One of these days I'm sure we're going to come home and find the pool ripped out of the ground. When we first moved in, before there were houses on the other side of the lake, every day we would come home after a spring storm and all our patio furniture would have slid across the deck and be in the pool. The last storm we had while we were in Boston the win blew my Sox flag away... perhaps God was telling me something..

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:27 PM) I have family in Springfield, and we would drive through Plainfield on the way to Route 51 south. We went through Plainfield the week after the tornado hit. It looked like a ghost town. I vividly remember a church that had a unique structure on the top, a large sort of hook on top. After the tornado hit, it looked like someone removed the "hook", picked it up and set it down about 50 feet away. Mother Nature can really make us look small when she tries. That church is now a resturant called Bacci.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:20 PM) My grandparents lived out there (on Caton Farm), so they were pretty close. I was going into third grade, school was delayed that year because there was some damage to our elementary school roof. I remember running home from a friend's house as (seriously) golf ball size hail came down and then sitting on my Nana's refrigorator in the basement watching a sapling tree being whipped around in the wind. To this day I'm always a little nervous when I hear the thunder. I can't be sure, but I don't even remember the sirens going off until the storm had started. I felt like it struck with, literally, no warning. A couple of my mom's friends' homes were destroyed, and my grandparents/cousin's church. I remember driving the 10 minutes to downtown Plainfield afterwards (to check on my grandparents and misc other relatives) it was absolutely unreal. Everytime I drive down there now I am ALWAYS reminded of the tornado. Such a different looking town, totally incredible. The sirens didn't go off. It came out of nowhere, literally. We live just about at the corner of Caton Farm and County Line Road now. Hopefully just enough off the "alley".

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:05 PM) Ya, she's definately not near as good in person. However, she's definately as big of a b*tch in person (if not more) than she is on tv. TV brings out the best of her. Personally I think the hottest on that show is Jessica (I think thats her name). Although she's retarded for sticking with that Jason character. Oh hell NO... Jessica..? The whiner...?? The "I can't have a conversation without asking 34,386 questions about every statement, comment, look or grunt someone makes"... :headshake I figured you as more of a Taylor girl. Cute, blond, super smart (to correct all your grammar errors ), but at the same time totally independent. I see someone like Talon being your best friend, too. You and Stephen and Jason would be having surf offs every sunday morning. LMAO..

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:00 PM) Whether I get a brought or a dog, I'm putting ketchup and mustard on it. If its a brat some sweet peppers are a must as well for me.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 04:01 PM) But it is entertaining. It is.. Jason, you mentioned you met "kristin" before. Is she nasty...? I hear she is nasty.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 03:57 PM) I saw hail like that once in Texas. Unbelievable. After the storm we went outside.. it was piled up at the garage door and on the deck nearly a foot. Looked just like snow. And it was sunny and 70+ degrees out right after it all happened.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 03:47 PM) I'll bet it's scary. Have they had any tornados since you moved out there? I read somewhere that Plainfield is in this strange sort of anomoly zone where it's become a tornado alley. Yea.. there was a minor one just this past June that touched down right in the middle of the road on 126 just south of route 59. It mess up trees and power lines there, luckily no one was hurt. At our house, just over 5 miles from that intersection, we had hail the size of baseballs which literally punched holes in the side of our house, busted through our solar pool cover, among other things.. and wind gusts so fast that it ripped the cover off our hot tub and tossed it across our back yard, between the neighbors houses, and rested it across the street in another neighbor's front yard. The thing weighs over 70 lbs. As a matter of fact when we got home from work last night the contractors were just starting the siding repair. We're about 4 miles from PHS where that one initially touched down and I don't think there's ever been one exactly where we are.. but we're close enough I'm sure.

We didn't know anyone at the time, but since moving out there we've met a ton of people that rebuilt after it. They have shown us some amazing pictures from the destruction.

QUOTE(SnB @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 03:32 PM) tell that to brian he won't let me eat cotton candy at the game Well.. that's something entirely different. A guy eating CC... in public... without a child...

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 03:32 PM) dranken? Trust me, you can't. My friend is a big boy, and he couldn't do it, though he came close. This same kid ate 5 whoppers with everything in an hour and drank something like 8 cups of pop a minute or two. EDIT: And he ate breakfast about an hour before the whoppers and ate a big dinner later in the day. That is just gross. If I eat even a smidge too much I am lethargic the rest of the day and the thought of eating makes me sick.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 03:14 PM) You just want to be surrounded by a bunch of enanblers who will sit by and don't say anything while they watch your self-destructive hotdog-abusing behavior, don't you? LMAO.. yea. Something like that.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 03:09 PM) Stop putting ketchup on your hot dog! Kids.. :rolly

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 04:41 PM) I'd say Dogs, but not cuz of the dogs, but because of the "Salad on a Bun." I still get into arguments with my fiancee about putting ketchup on a hot dog. It just can't be done. I can not stand people at the park, or anywhere for that matter, who say s*** to me when I put ketchup on my hot dog. Ya know what.. stfu and mind your own damn business.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) wow, i struck a cord. Yea... assuming things about what parents do or don't do and making comments about their children is pretty rude.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 12:27 PM) Yeah I rolled up about 15 minutes before the game started. I would've gotten there sooner except Steff had me making circles around the park, visiting every group of port-o-potties along the way. :banghead Uhhh.. duh. I had been drinking since 9:30 in the morning..

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 12:25 PM) From what I've heard, that sounded like a pretty rough thread. It wasn't so bad.. until the boys started PMS'ing. JOKING.... Please don't hurt me...

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 12:23 PM) I didn't even know you were in attendance on Saturday. Although I do know exactly who you were after hearing that you were there....hmmm YAS was long gone by the time you got there, slacker.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 12:17 PM) You guys think you're brave don't ya? Bringing up a JB promotion on the message board. I said it in person to 3 esteemed members of Soxtalk on Saturday. And then ran...

QUOTE(YASNY @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 12:18 PM) I knew you couldn't resist. Trying to make up for being Mrs Mean yesterday.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 12:15 PM) Aw geez ... she's gonna say thank you again. :rolly Yes. Thank you.