video of woman running in Chicago goes viral

[Demovictory9]

CBS Chicago posted a video captured earlier today of several joggers, walkers and bikers getting caught up in some big waves along the waterfront. As the water started kicking up onto the concrete, several of them tried to run away from the oncoming waves.

Unfortunately, one woman couldn’t outrun the water. She got caught by the waves and tossed around, nearly getting pulled into the river before being helped up by another pedestrian.

The clip has gone viral with tons of people expressing concern for the runner’s safety. Some of them are stunned that there was anyone trying to exercise around the raging waves:

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[cinematicdiversions]

1. The great Lakes have too much water.

If only there were areas here in the states that could take some of that water off their hands.

[Demovictory9]

7. we need some of that water in California

[OnDoutside]

15. Or move away from avocado production....

[OnDoutside]

26. Yes, that too.

[AngryOldDem]

25. +1

And a to Chin Music’s post above.

[Demsrule86]

10. They do have too much water. My daughter wanted to swim in August but the water in Erie

was to high. The undertow is awful. I never knew lakes had undertow until I moved to the Cleveland area.

[canuckledragger]

34. The great lakes are essentially land-locked seas

Very deep and cold, with all the the weather patterns you'd associate with ocean travel...minus the hurricanes.

[mopinko]

13. yeah, sorry, lots of laws. including a treaty w canada.

the great lakes supply water to a whooooole lot of the country, but as others have mentioned, they are all pretty low after 2 years of drought.
strange part of which being that 3 yrs ago lake mich was at an historic high.
i'm less than a mile away, and it drowned a tree and an old grapevine.

[viva la]

21. Yeah, no. We're not gonna give away our water.

It's already shared with 1/3rd of the country through rivers.

[cinematicdiversions]

1. The great Lakes have too much water.

If only there were areas here in the states that could take some of that water off their hands.

[tritsofme]

4. Thankfully the Great Lakes are protected from this sort of exploitation.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. No. They are low. Draining them to send them west is IMPRACTICAL & unwise. Not going to happen.

[Demsrule86]

12. Erie is not down. And we had a great deal of rain.

[Demsrule86]

11. Nope. Lakes are protected.

[sarisataka]

32. That's an idea

Let's send water from where it is available to the areas that haven't been able to manage their water use to the supply. Once those areas of abundance are depleted we can address managing use when everybody doesn't have enough.

[Hortensis]

3. Wow to those waves. Thanks, Demo.

[mopinko]

14. just a nitpick- that's the lake, not the river.

we do have both. i think this is a south side beach.

[greenjar_01]

17. Oak Street turn or slightly south of there

I've run it many times. You can see the twirly ride at Navy Pier in the background.

The Lakefront Trail goes down against that wall just south of Oak Street beach at the turn and stays that way for a little while.

[mopinko]

18. ah. havent been down that way in a long time.

[greenjar_01]

19. Lincoln Park to Navy Pier and back along the trail (about an 8 miler)

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was/is one of my routes. There's water washing on to the trail over there on a good day, especially Fullerton down to North Avenue.

[greenjar_01]

16. "nearly getting pulled into the river..."

The river? That's motherfucking Lake Michigan. How dare you?

[Bucky]

20. Waiting for Tucker Carlson to blame this on vaccines

... when we all know it was really caused by Hillary's emails and Obama's tan suit

[AngryOldDem]

24. Utterly stupid.

She could have been swept away. Not from Chicago but I read stuff from others that said there were other, safer lakefront paths to run, bike, etc.

[treestar]

29. Not going out on the Edmund Fitzgerald today

Must be really choppy out in the lake.

[Treefrog]

30. There's an equally scary one of a bicyclist getting knocked over.

No way would I run or bike there when the water looked like that!

[Sympthsical]

31. Yeah, I've done this . . .

When I lived in Chicago, I had an apartment along LSD, so I'd often go out along the lakefront. It's super peaceful and beautiful in the early morning.

So, one morning, the lake was being a bit rowdy like this. I decided I was going to bike from roughly Lincoln Park down to the Planetarium and back. Where I was near the Gold Coast looks almost the same as where the woman in the video was. Sure enough, a giant swell came rolling up. When it washed down, it swept my bike tires from under me.

No more biking that day!

The lake really is no joke when it looks like that. People think, "Oh, it's just half a foot of water at most." Yeah, that half a foot of water will take you, no problem.

[greenjar_01]

33. Yes, this is at the Oak Street turn