Chicagoist: Happy Anniversary, Man-made Disaster!

K

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:53:42 -0600

me, too, Mike! I was in high school at the time, and I remember thinking, "Um...ok...I guess I believe you but everything sure looks fine to me." Now when I read about it, I kick myself for not paying more attention when it was going on- I just totally didn't get it and thought they were being sensationalistic.

mike

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:05:37 -0600

I remember the live newscasts with the reporters standing at street level and trying to explain that there was a disastrous flood downtown. That was pretty amusing.

vit

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:56:03 -0600

I was attending Columbia College at the time and we were evacuated. It sure made riding the CTA a confusing chore while they sorted it out. I never considered from the rat angle either. But I do vividly remember a younger mayor Daley red-faced on the television announcing sternly that 'heads were going to roll'.

matty

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:53:59 -0600

I remember the flood really well. it was a disaster. i never considered the vermin angle though.

Chicagoan

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:32:06 -0600

Chicagoan was living here at the time. It sucked indeed -- no pun intended -- but it provided the unintended benefit of killing off A LOT of the Loop's indigenous subterranean rodent population. Rat corpses notwithstanding, the ensuing six-month period was a golden age in the continuing man vs. rat saga. Eventually, the life impulse prevailed and the verminous inhabitants of underground Chicago returned, much as the locust will do shortly in the terrestrial world...