
When a Stevenson High School senior on Monday sent us photos of a couple of fish he found on his driveway in Buffalo Grove after the storm, I couldn't stop myself from speculating in print about "raining fish." However, I accepted a meteorologist's suggestion that the fish could have been dropped by birds caught in the storm as a perfectly plausible explanation.
Then I received more photos showing piles of fish, eight to 12 at a time, plopped on driveways in the Brookside Estate subdivision in Gurnee.
"Right around 8 o'clock things blew through and it looked pretty crazy," remembers Jeff Chahley, a 47-year-old senior director of sustainability for Kraft Foods who was home that morning when the storm hit. "We had some trees down. Our neighbors had some missing siding."
The storm canceled swim lessons for neighbor Hailey Royce, who turns 7 next month, so she and her dad, Dave, returned to their home just as folks were stepping outside to survey the storm's damage.
"There were some downed trees. The furniture in our back yard was now in our front yard," says Dave Royce, 43, who works as president of National Auto Sport Association Midwest. "And then Hailey said, 'Why are there fish over there?'"







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