Updates are being posted on the city web site, and there is a number to call 847/318-5200 for a recorded message.
There is a temporary emergency shelter being opened at Maine East for anyone needing to evacuate.
Please access the front page of the city web site at http://www.parkridge.us/ for information as it becomes available.
September 13, 2008
Flooding Updates
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I have a question for the ministers and lay people who are involved in the PADS program...did any of the churches offer to open their doors to the park ridge residents that needed shelter Saturday night? Instead of MAine East providing the needed shelter did St.Paul of the Cross offer help? Just wondering...but then it was difficult to get to Saint PAul's because of the flooding so how about Our Lady of Ransom...
It's time we looked into why this area is getting flooded. This is two years in a rew...anyone remember August 23, 2007 when south of Dempster was flooded. When we called the Service Center, we were told this was a "freak occurrance"...well, a little over a year later that "freak occurrance" happened again.
$15 million for a new police station of $15 million for additional sewers and flooding control? Oh yeah, let's run out and buy a new police station so we can take Napleton's property off his hands, or make the City Council look like something other than the idiots who overpaid for that house on Courtland that they've been sitting on for the past three years.
Fred:
I agree with the spirit or your message. There are infrastructure issues in PR that need to be addresed.
Having said that the 15 million you mention in your message is NOT EVEN CLOSEe to fixing the flooding problems we had this weekend. I don't think anyone of us want to even consider what that would cost.
anonymous (1:56), really? Are you really going to bring out that bag of worms. Maybe Maine East was provided as the shelter is because it is at least 10X the size of St. Paul of the Cross. Are you really going to say that are large PUBLIC school with no private affliation should not be provided as the shelter. you have delved too low my friend. too low
Not defending anyone here and not denying that we need sewer and, for god sake, road work but please at least consider this.
I just saw on the news that Park Ridge had 9.95 inches of rain in the last two days.
why did the water all of the sudden "swoosh" out of our basements around 9:45 a.m.? Did someone open a connection to the Deep Tunnel? If so, could this have been opened earlier??
So why are the recorded messages from the City coming from Arizona?
I would guess that the "swoosh" was when the city started pumping the storm water directly into the Des Plaines river, once the Deep Tunnel was filled. Don't know if they can turn pumps on earlier or if they have to wait for permission or Deep Tunnel filling up. Probably can't do it right away, cause you can't put untreated water into the river unless you don't have other options.
Storing water in residents basements should not be an option . . .
St. Paul of the Cross also had water in the basement. That's why just about all services on Sunday were standing room only - in the main
church.
But - the gym was wide open??
Thank you.
B.O.H.I.C.A.
Messages ,notification and flood waters all from a distance - seemed to find there way back home in PR.
Yes - something is up when we paid for this deep.....tunnel and it didn't work????
Where do we start to complain!
Where is the formation of the PR flood committee !
If FEMA ran out of water and food down in Texas.....then you know GB
is in bigger trouble and the R party.
The roots of our flooding problem are twofold. One, we continue to create more and more impervious area, leaving nowhere for the water to naturally be absorbed into the ground. Two, the place it ultimately ends up, the Des Plaines river, is desperately in need of dredging. I canoed down it several years ago and there are many areas where the canoe bottomed-out. The cost to dredge due to the toxicity of the silt, even if it could ever be approved by the EPA, would probably be in the hundreds of millions. But restoring the original depth of the river is probably the only way to mitigate the problem.
why are the recorded messages (coming from Arizona) coming to my phone at 2am?
I got a call from Phoenix at 11:00pm. I had gotten calls earlier, but since caller id did not say something like "CITY OF PARK RIDGE" I did not answer. I did answer one, and then the first message is "PRESS ANY BUTTON TO RECEIVE A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMUNICATOR" Not know WTF the COMMUNICATOR was, I hung up.
How about "PRESS ANY BUTTON TO RECEIVE A MESSAGE FROM a) EMERGENCY PERSONNEL b) THE CITY OF PARK RIDGE c) THE POLICE d) or REGARDING FLOODING, etc . . .
A message from the COMMUNICATOR, I thought Reagan was calling from the grave . . . .
Yes, I too hung up on "The Communicator", not knowing who was really calling. I had gotten twocalls during the day and also one long after bedtime (midnight or later Im guessing).
HP
I guess some of you are a bit puzzled as to why the calls were originating from AZ, see they only have to run the extension cord so far across the border…
Outsourcing, you know, where the jobs are going to 3rd and 4th world countries so that we can be less burdened with these menial jobs…
Hey did you here walmart has a sale on paid jogging suits???
Time to wake up!
Geeze and I thought Mart Butler said it was only a 100 year flood.
I can live with the fact that the calls came from AZ. In case you hadnt noticed, I think your water bill gets mailed to Carol Stream (or some other place)
However, they could have at the very least identified themselves better to get the information passed along. Even if they cant change their caller ID listing, they should be able to tell the person who did pick up the phone that emergency information from the City was to follow if you pressed something.
Seems ironic that the "notifer" communication system was kinda withholding that specific bit of info...
Sorry...meant to say the "Communicator"...guess I thought a fire alarm system was calling me...
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