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Seattlite turned Chicagoan checking in:
When the sirens go off, we don't give AF. Nothing enters the city.
When I moved here, I remember working on a highrise in the loop when all these air raid sirens went off. I looked around and no one seemed to even acknowledge it. I said "is anyone... Hearing this? Shouldn't we like... Do something?" And then someone said "oh yea those just do that. First Tuesday of the month or when there's a tornado that we also don't care about."
I was floored, then went back to cold calling.
Chicago is called the Windy City because a lot of square architecture has led to wind tunnels, but they also serve as an extra purpose of breaking up big winds and not allowing room for tornadoes to bloom.
In fact, many tornados also don't occur towards the south suburbs sometimes because Chicago just blocks all the lake Michigan wind.
It's windy here alright, but I can't not make the correction that it was called the windy city because our politicians are all a buncha windbags!
I expect that almost makes up for living in a dystopian shitehole
you know you can get away with insulting a lot of things in this city, cause we're a liberal town, but don't insult the sausage