The rain in Des Plaines falls mainly in Spain

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Fred Stiening

This is a tributary of the Des Plaines river that runs through our office complex
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What the stream normally looks like

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11 Responses to The rain in Des Plaines falls mainly in Spain

  2. Nidster says:
    April 19, 2013 at 11:23 pm

    Nice lake!!! Does Des Plaines river run under that bridge in the 2nd, smaller photo?

    Also, that’s looks to be a pretty nice looking piece of Chicago real estate and a nice place to work. Since the blog site did not go down I suppose all is well and the danger is over?

    • Art Stone says:
      April 20, 2013 at 12:55 am

      I go to the office about once a week for a meeting. I don’t have a cube there – I was hired to work remotely from Connecticut but decided right away to move back to Chicago.

      I’m constrained not to say who I’m working for (call Alex Jones!) but if you want to see where I was standing, whip out Google Maps and find the corner of River Road and Higgins Road in Rosemont Illinois.

      The stream flows under a driveway then merges with the River. The buildings were clearly designed with the knowledge they are in a flood plain. The only thing unusual was a few pumps emptying out water seeping into the basement. The street out front was getting close to impassible. No issues at home yet – it didn’t rain today so probably it will subside. They opened the locks to dump raw sewage from the Chicago river into Lake Michigan which relieves some of the flooding issues in the area further north.

  3. Art Stone says:
    April 20, 2013 at 1:14 am

    If you look at O’Hare Airport in Google Earth/maps, north of Toughy Road, they built a large retaining basin to capture and hold back floodwaters – the stream drains a large area of the NorthWest suburbs. At least a portion of the storm runoff is now diverted into the Deep Tunnel, which currently can hold about 1 billion gallons – it’s a 93 mile long tunnel deep underground (don’t tell Alex Jones!) with around a 33 foot diameter bore. It was intended to fill up the huge quarry in Thornton along I-80 during floods, but much of that idea was largely abandoned. They expect to finish it by 2029

  4. Art Stone says:
    April 20, 2013 at 4:44 pm

    Corrected headline: The rain in Mount Prospect mainly floods Des Plaines

    http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-75541800/

  5. Art Stone says:
    April 20, 2013 at 4:53 pm

    Let’s see if I can get the picture from the parking deck – it was sleeting and the wind was about 40 mph, so I didn’t linger… I’ll add it at the end..

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