Chicago's Longest Day

Hyperion's right, I had discounted the fact that a tornado powerful enough to carry something that big ten miles would probably just rip the plane up first. Still, the possibility of a tornado picking a fully-loaded tanker truck up off Wacker Drive and hurling it into the side of the Sears Tower IS plausible and very scary.


if you want to be over the top on the where's-my-antidepressant scale, make it a Greyhound or a school bus, from the perspective of a horrified citizen inside the building, seeing the faces of the passengers through the vehicle windows
 
Hmmm... although the concept of a mass-tornado touchdown in Chicago is interesting, I'd find it more interesting from an alt-historical perspective if it were taking place further back in the past with more known history to change.

One comments on the setup, however:

The congestion was heavy on the Dan Ryan expressway as rush hour was in full swing. Summer was here and the temperature was already starting to reflect that; a high of 94 and a dewpoint of 73? Yikes that was balmy.

If you were listening to the radio that morning, you might have caught a weather report mentioning thunderstorms by rush hour with a chance that they might be severe. A common response might be to brush off that information as they usually were wrong.

Not really. A common response to 94F and 73% Humidity from almost anyone in the Midwest is going to be "I needed a weatherman to tell me that a thunderstorm's coming?"
 

Kosta

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Got to love that my second-least favourite city* (and coincidentally the one I've lived in all my life) is being destroyed. Kudos to you, sir.

*Second to Paris that is, of course.
 
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