Try paddling over to that perennial favorite de facto swimming hole, Clarendon and Lakeside, for the wacky water fun! The reader who submitted this photo, taken after last night's torrential rains, says: "Bonus: in the winter, it becomes an ice rink."
Is this a parking lot, a street, or an alley? Addittional info please....
ReplyDeleteSuch flooding is natural when a huge amount of rain falls in a very short time period. I can imagine that later today we'll see pictures (or TV clips) of motorists whose cars "drowned" when they drove through a highway underpass during the downpour.
ReplyDeleteThat bit of Lakeside, between Clarendon and Marine - adjacent to Walgreens, is a public street with slanted public parking.
ReplyDeleteI saw Streets and San fixing the curb when the weather broke; but, there appears to still be an underlying issue with proper drainage.
"I can imagine that later today we'll see pictures (or TV clips) of motorists whose cars "drowned" when they drove through a highway underpass during the downpour."
ReplyDeleteOh, and the LSD underpasses! Don't even want to THINK about the trouble there.
It's nice to know that water drainage was carefully considered by the developer of the new Weiss/Walgreens building and parking lot. Jeeeez...
ReplyDeleteA heavy rain is one thing, but this is a sign of careless planning. I don't recall the runoff problem being this bad before the new building went up.
As more buildings are built up the older sewer systems just cannot handle it. I guess city street workers will have a secure job for many years to come.......
ReplyDeleteWhat is the address?
ReplyDeleteHey man, at least its water. The block that we live on had sewage pouring out of their toilets. The sewage systems just can't hold everyone, yet we keep adding more.
ReplyDeleteI called the water department, but they don't really seems to care. If you hear about a mysterious man dying of dysentery, you'll know the fate of WindyCityEagle.
The Walgreens address is 4720 N Marine Drive.
ReplyDeleteI know of several buildings built in Helen's ward one I live in where the developer was not required to properly grade the project so that water goes into the storm sewers properly.
ReplyDeleteYes the system is old but it also hasn't been upgraded in years.
But all those flowers Daley plants and other bs he spends money make people forget about what they can't see i.e. the poor old outdated sewer system.
People will never see him for what he is.
The city crumbles,TIF money should be used for infrastructure period.My high hopes for Daley maintaing a working city are long gone.We are on the hook for 2016 God forbid,Boeing got 50 million,yet we can't handle run-off.Can we put anyone to work doing what needs to be done?
ReplyDeleteAfter much research, we've found that our problem was due to a collapsed sewer line, which cause all our sewage to backup when we got the rain.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, we can't get a crew out here to fix it, and rain is on the way this Thursday.
But hey, I might be able to get some sweet fencing tickets in 2016, so thats cool.
my place on kenmore got some back flooding too. related you think?
ReplyDeleteOh the perils of living in a basement unit.
ReplyDeleteWindy City Eagle, did you ever find out where the collapsed sewer line occurred? We live near Lawrence and Broadway and had sewage in our basement too.
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