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Did you get an e-mail from the CTA a little while ago? Some customers did with a severe weather warning.
Dear CTA Customer,
This email is to alert you that there is currently severe weather, including heavy rain and high winds, forecasted to reach Chicago during the afternoon and evening rush-hour period today, October 18. It is possible that this severe weather could impact CTA bus and train service. Please take this into account when planning your commute, and please allow for extra travel time on CTA service this evening.
For the most up-to-date CTA travel information, please check transitchicago.com and your local news outlet.
Thank you, Chicago Transit Authority
We're trying to figure out why some riders got that e-mail and others didn't. Anyone know?
We're hearing it's hailing downtown, but it's pretty nice out still just northwest of there. And where's our damn tornado, Skilling? Tom says we're in the "dry slot" of the storm, which is why it's so windy. "Not all parts of the Chicago area are likely to see severe weather and the most widespread severe weather is likely to be to our east in Indiana and Michigan. But, given the presence of such strong winds through the atmosphere today, any thunderstorm has a better than usual chance of producing strong gusts beyond the powerful non-thunderstorm wind gusts already occurring." The radar map still has stormy blotches on it, which means some areas around us are already getting rained on (though it seems to be mostly light to moderate rainfall). The storm should clear up by 8pm or so, though.
"Imminent deluge Chicago" by sfmoe
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Golf ball-sized hail for about two minutes down here at Chicagoist's Bridgeport Bureau.
there was hail in river north @ about 5:30. only lasted a minute or two.
I slept like a baby until my alarm went off 5 minutes ago ;-)
I got the alert at 8:30 p.m. ... long after i was home and it never rained on the Northwest side
Lamest alert ever.
I received the alert at 2:05pm yesterday. I got the email because I have the Chicago Card Plus. Others may have received it if they have registered their regular Chicago Card.
How do I know? I use a unique email address specifically for my CCP.
I think the alert was good. If the CTA is going to be more proactive about things I'm all for it.
I have the Chicago Card Plus and I never got the alert. I don't really mind, since everyone was reporting bad storms were on the way. I was just wondering how they decided who got the alert and who didn't. Maybe there was some tech difficulty if they sent it to all Chicago Card Plus holders, but only some got the email.
A technical difficulty at the CTA!? Pee-shaw, *that* could never happen within such a smooth running organization.
I received this alert - at 2:56 am Friday. It's a good idea, but someone's email servers (the cta's or hotmail's) screwed it up.
I received my alert at 5:28 p.m. I was already on my way home by then, but I appreciate the idea.
People did receive it if they registered their regular Chicago card. That's what happened to me. In fact, if I remember right, the email said it was sent from "Chicago Card" or "Chicagocard".
So people are going to bitch if CTA doesn't warn anyone about delays, and they're going to bitch if CTA does?
I think the question was more *why* did the CTA send this alert. Have they sent these types of alerts in the past? I'm not aware of any.
I have a friend who received hers at 8:44 p.m. yesterday.
Yeah. I got mine at 11.04p last night. Nice warning. At first I thought it meant for this morning.
From now on, I want alerts every minute that state that everything is OK.