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2naSalit

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2. And a few...
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 03:43 PM
6 hrs ago

In other parts of Wisconsin and Illinois.

This is becoming a steady weather pattern.

I remember back in the mid-70s, when I lived between Rockford and Chicago, there were many bad thunderstorms that had tornado warnings. My husband would regale me with tales of bad tornadoes that passed through in years before that. One rather bad day was the day I had to take my MIL's RV to get propane and found myself under a funnel cloud enroute. It was really scary as I knew I was in a big cardboard box on wheels. The folks at the propane place saw the look on my face when I walked in, they offered me a seat and asked if I had been in whatever it was that passed through their place. I had. They were really nice about my state of shock.

Then I moved to Madison, WI and there were a number of bad storms pass through while I lived there including the one that wiped out Barneveld, I lived in Mt Horeb at the time. I remember the Red Cross shelter at the church across the street from me.

I don't miss those days regarding the storms.

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