12/30/2023 0 Comments Ohare rain totals today“None of the municipalities have the money to fix it, it needs a billion dollar face-lift, that is the only way we will decrease, maybe not stop, but decrease the floods,” Aguilar said. He blamed repeat flooding on a lack of attention paid to aging infrastructure. Most of the people who live in basement apartments in the area are working class, immigrant families who most likely don’t have renter’s insurance, costing them hundreds of dollars to resettle, said Yessenia Bahena, a lifelong Cicero resident and a property manager of a building in the same block where Mazon lives.įrank Aguilar, Cook County commissioner of the 16th District, called on other city leaders to push to declare Cook County a disaster area to ensure residents can receive federal funding. Mazon is hoping insurance will cover the cost of some repairs otherwise, she said she hoped the Federal Emergency Management Agency and city officials would step up to help. There’s people crying they don’t know where they’ll sleep tonight or what will happen next,” she said. “That was my bed,” said Mariajose, wearing plastic gloves because she was helping her mom clean their home. In the stack, a pink bed frame stood out. Stacks of ruined furniture including mattresses and couches plus some appliances were lined up outside dozens of homes in the alleyways in Cicero on Monday morning. Official information will be released over the next few days, weather officials said. The preliminary data came from radar estimates, personal weather stations and rain gauges. The previous record was 2.06 inches in July 1982. The National Weather Service said daily rainfall totals ranged from 3 to 7 inches in the immediate Chicago area after “extended rounds of heavy/torrential rainfall.” O’Hare International Airport broke the record for daily rainfall Sunday, recording 3.35 inches. On Monday, residents of the hardest-hit areas struggled to restore their homes to livable conditions as local officials pledged support. The worst of the flooding occurred on the west and southwest sides of Chicago and in the near west and southwest suburbs, weather officials said. Sunday’s heavy rain poured upward of 8 inches in Berwyn, Cicero and Garfield Park, according to preliminary reports from weather officials, sending residents in search of supplies to clean up flooded homes and prompting professional cleaning crews to cancel their holiday. The family once again does not know where they’ll be spending the night. “Otra vez, no sabemos donde dormiremos esta noche,” said Alejandra Serna as she cleaned the kitchen Monday. The family had recently moved into a garden apartment in town thanks to donations and hard work, said Mariajose’s mother, Alejandra Serna.īut their apartment in the 1900 block of 51st Court in Cicero was one of the hundreds hit by a prolonged storm Sunday, flooding basements with water reaching nearly 2 feet high, destroying their belongings and leaving the family, once again, with nothing. Lowest Pressure 1004.Mariajose Pama Serna, 7, came with her family to Cicero from Colombia in hopes of securing asylum.Highest Pressure 1044.4 hPa Salida - Monarch Pass, CO.Least Humid 0.9% Vicksburg Municipal, MS. Most Humid 106.2% Allendale County Airport, SC.Wettest (Last Hour) 1in Oxford, Waterbury-Oxford Airport, CT.Windiest 31.1mph Roswell International Air Center Airport, NM.Coldest 26.5 ☏ Wadena Municipal Airport, MN.Hottest 107.5 ☏ Needles, Needles Airport, CA.Recorded at Chicago, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport Updated 0 mins (3.9 miles away) Get an account to remove ads View More Real-Time Extremes Nation State County
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