Chicago Albany Park Flooding

[TerribleT0M]

While I was at work one night, I got a call that my uncle, who lives just a few doors down the street from that bridge, was getting water in under all the doors in the house. I left work, hitched the trailer up to my truck and went over to Lowes. I bought a full skid of sand bags, and drove 5 hours from central Wisconsin, arriving around 3AM. A friend of mine and I sandbagged the house, keeping most of the water out. I spent the night sleeping in the back of my truck in a Jewel Parking lot.

[TerribleT0M]

@TerribleT0M

I stayed down in Chicago the next two days and helped him clean up. What a wild ride that was... don't think I got more than a few hours sleep the whole trip. I used to live in Chicago, and I remember the flood in 87 when I was a kid. That was nothing compared to the flood of 08.

[acerkic]

This was the woman kitty corner from our house. We got 7 feet and lost half our everything. Mayor Daley was too busy in Michigan. It hurt more than anything to throw my everything into a dumpster.

[metametametametameta]

This is the footbridge on Bernard Avenue, just south of Carmen.

[Godzie1]

I lived near Horner park near Belle Plaine in Chicago in 87 & don't remember any flood? Unless it hit only certain areas?

But the old snowstorms? I remember especially 79 & 67! Buried alive!

[atp3515]

As for this time, the rainfall total from Hurricane Ike was worse since we had just gotten heavy rain a few days before from Hurricane Gustav. I think the totals at Midway (or maybe O'Hare) were 13 inches or rain in the first 14 days of September.

[atp3515]

I don't know how long you have been in Chicago, but I remember 1987 like it was yesterday. I was just a kid then. I think it was right before school started. I remember having standing water a couple inches deep in our backyard which then came flooding into the house. The basement was pretty badly damaged. We got heavy rain one night, and I think the next night we got a couple inches more than that.

[5882300carpet]

Back in 87' to 89' I used to go to Albany Park right there on Ainslie. We used to walk over this bridge to go the park all the time. I remember that flood you're talking about in 87'. The good ole days. Remember when that Korean Church burned down on Kimball just north of Ainslie?