Another tornado warning has been issued for the far northwest suburbs the day after at least seven tornadoes touched down.
Neighbors are in the thick of cleaning up right now. Fortunately, there aren't any reports of injuries or serious structural damage, though there are some trees down on cars and there is damage to roofs."I walked in our backyard and I saw one little tree down and I was like, 'Oh that's nothing,'" Rodriguez said. "Then came out our front door and saw just devastation. It looked like a bomb had gone off.
The roof of Marion Novak's home caved in as high winds struck at around 6:15 p.m. She was standing in her living room as tornado sirens started to wail. "We had a lot of trees down and some damage to the side of the house, a couple broken windows and now we're just trying to clean up," he said. "We heard this horrible noise pounding on the front door like a train and Mary opened the door. I've never heard anything like it. And then our neighbor next door was standing there with her baby. She has no basement," said Eileen Baehrend.The storm left its mark, including totaling a garage after a giant fell on top of it. Many homes had siding which peeled off and there are broken windows everywhere.
In Indian Head Park, four townhomes in the Chestnut on the Green subdivision have been deemed uninhabitable by a building inspector, the town's police chief said.Chopper 7HD captured aerials of a townhouse in Indian Head Park with a back wall ripped away, exposing other parts of the home. Fortunately, no injuries were reported there.
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