Stop in for a cup of coffee

Woah! that lightening was close. It lit up the room. Just a block away I think.


There were some good ones around Chicago Monday night....


Kevin Doom, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Romeoville, said the super cell thunderstorm system that moved through in the evening registered about 500 lightning strikes within a five-minute period. Typical would be 100 to 200 in that time frame, he said.

Monday's storm across Chicago was unusually packed with lightning: NWS