A Sultry Summer on Independence Day: July 4th
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Happy Independence Day on July 4th, 2012!
Courtesy: GHung
Lombard, Illinois USA
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Today Tom Skilling verified the weather temperature to be 100°F, for a firecracker hot Independence Day, steaming with a sultry hot summerday on July 4th, 2012.
When the temps rise over 100°F in the Midwest, summer storms and tornadoes are right around the corner in July and August.
One sultry summerday in Lilac Town, I walked to the Villa Park Public Library on Ardmore Avenue and School Street, right by Brust Funeral Home where there used to be a big tree by the threshold. I remembered church chimes were playing afternoon tunes.
The afternoon flew by clouded by menacing overcast skies and steaming hot showers brought by a summer tornado roaming in the western suburbs of DuPage County, in Villa Park-Lombard.
The library intercom announced for everyone to go to the public shelter at the Villa Park Library. From the glass window, I watched inclement showers and torrential summer rains cloud the window pane. A Tornado Warning was advised by the Weather Channel shortwave radio.
Afterwards, we heard the loud clap of thunder and the tree by the church and Brust Funeral Home collapsed to the ground. The very same tree I passed by early in the afternoon, had crashed to the ground hit by lightning, thunder, and a blowing tornado wind in Villa Park, Illinois USA
I was glad that a neighboring librarian gave me a ride back to my Lombard home in District 5, York Township m, DuPage County, Illinois USA.
A lot of the old tall trees in DuPage County collapse stricken by thunderbolts of lightning during tornado season in the western suburbs. Some of the trees lose limbs, branches and trunk to windstorms brought by whirlwinds and eddies in the eye of the storm. Low electrical powerlines catch the fallen trees in mid-air and become compromised in massive ComEd blackouts, power outages, and short-circuits.
Accurate Weather forecasting, tree pruning, and prevention can forestall a community tragedy in the path of tornadoes roaming along Villa Avenue, Washington Boulevard, and Westmore-Meyers Road, in the western suburbs of Lombard and Villa Park, in DuPage County, Illinois USA.
While I have observed the path of whirlwinds and thunderstorms ad a Lombard resident homeowner, I have noticed the cross-roads of Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard to be in the path of the tornadoes season.
Heavy rainshowers, including pellets of summer hail, can actually attack drivers, commuters, and Lombard residents in the eye of the thunderstorms and tornadoes roaming in DuPage County, Illinois USA.
Lightning and thunderbolts targeting tall trees cause a lot of damages and losses to suburban resident homeowners. This past Monday, a tree crushed two (2) cars parked next to the stricken wooden tree.
Weather disasters can be prevented with Accurate Weather forecasting, prediction, and scientific technology in order to prevent a community tragedy in DuPage County, Illinois USA.
When the sultry summerdays become hotter than 100°F, get ready for tornadoes season in July and August 2012.
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On July 4th, 1997, I had a Fourth of July Luncheon Celebration at our Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow with six (6) Special Guests–Chemical Engineer Philippe Alinat, his wife Christine, their two daughters, her Mother and her Sister visiting from Lyons, France. I invited French-speaking guests since I was Tutoring the Alinat’s oldest daughter at their home in Woodridge, Illinois USA. My traditional American Fourth of July Luncheon was catered by Kentucky Fried Chicken Original Recipe, Corn on the Cob, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, Macaroni and Cheese, Cole Slaw, Corn Bread, and Soda Beverages, non-alcoholic in the afternoon. My Father, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, was disabled and bedridden upstairs on the second floor on a Gastro-Intestinal tube and could not join our Fourth of July Luncheon. I prepared for him Mashed Potatoes and Small Pieces of Chicken, Corn Bread. My Father, a Lombard resident homeowner became disabled after he purchased the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow on September 2, 1996. Four months afterwards on December 22, 1996, my Father was severely injured at home by a blunt hit to the head resulting in Traumatic Brain Injury and an Aneurysm surgically treated by a neurosurgery at Good Samaritan Advocate Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois USA. My Special Guests understood my predicament with DuPage Home Care Physicians Dr. Thomas Cornwell M.D., Nancy Minch R.N. and Jennifer, a Certified Nurse’s Assistant from Woodridge who lived at Seven Bridges in Illinois, USA. Philippe and Christine Alinat were members of the Alliance Française de Chicago and also members of the Union des Français à l’Étranger since Christine’s family had lived in Morocco, Algeria, as well as in Lyons, France. All together there were eight (8) people present for my Fourth of July Luncheon in Lombard during 1997, including my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung who was a senior invalid at home upstairs in our Lombard home where it used to be at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard near St. Pius X Catholic Church. Everyone, including Philippe Alinat and his family, enjoyed the afternoon Fourth of July in 1997 and took pictures of us in our Lombard home, District 5, York Township, DuPage County, Illinois 60148-3028 USA. As far as I can remember, the Alinats did not provide for me or my family in Lombard another invitation since they were in Woodridge, Illinois. I was not invited to any other event with Philippe, Christine, and her two daughters in Woodridge, Illinois USA. Although I remember Philippe and Christine Alinat in 1997, I have not seen them in fifteen (15) years. I speak French fluently and travelled to Paris and Strasbourg in France during 1995. ©2012 GHung’s Blog WordPress. All Rights Reserved. Amitié Francophone
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