Chopper 7HD surveys tornado damage in Woodridge

Chopper 7HD flies above homes damaged by a tornado in west suburban Woodridge. abc7chicago.co...

[@LBSUPREMEG]

Woodridge Illinois here! It was hit very hard but everyone I talked too today has been safe

[@bybybaby2128]

Glad to hear you all are safe.

[@ja2415]

@@bybybaby2128 , the news been talking about this whole program they didn't mentioned any shooting in Chicago

[@patrickstar722]

@Slushzie they just opened that one too on 75th

[@jage5256]

Glad u r ok. Take good care

[@main.sounds4u]

i live in chicago and when i heard the sirens go off, my heart dropped. i feel so bad for those who lost their houses & love ones

[@Vi-O-11]

I live 39 min away from wooderig we had to go in the basement

[@nonelast4152]

I don't think anyone died luckily, I live about a 1/2 mile away from where it touched down

[@user-tv7qy9fu3b]

@@Vi-O-11 i live in naperville and right next to bolingbrook and i am so glad ir didnt come my way

[@nanibot6246]

I live really close to Chicago im basically in chicago im from a chicago suburb

[@josephbaranowski1235]

@@nanibot6246 ok

[@connorvoss3947]

Was helping pick up lots of trees, A big thank you from the crew of Kings Car was bringing 25+ guys out and closing for the day to come out and help! Would be impossible without you guys

[@moneyman443]

I ain’t doing that unless I’m forced by community service!!!

[@jafarhon]

Also big thanks to our local Home Depot for bringing there employees to cut down trees and cleaning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! our neighbors complete roof ended up in our garage breaking the walls

[@axulora3941]

When my mom and dad were talking bout this last night, my sister started crying so hard saying “I don’t wanna die” I felt so bad but luckily nothing bad happened to our home.

[@EmmaDeFazio5938]

Tornado season should be done time for hurricanes now

[@axulora3941]

@@EmmaDeFazio5938 yikes

[@EmmaDeFazio5938]

@@axulora3941 I’m sorry for your sister

[@axulora3941]

@@EmmaDeFazio5938 thank you, she’s all good now thank fully

[@EmmaDeFazio5938]

@@axulora3941 And I know I shouldn’t want hurricanes to come but I miss my live chat

[@mikeydav3386]

Grew up on Birchwood Pkwy, this used to be all corn fields in the 60's and 70's we had some tornados years ago there also, hope everyone is safe and ok, we just had that storm come through west Virginia, and had some possible tornado damage to, very rare here.

[@sophiak2179]

I would have never thought that something like this would happen to Woodridge. It’s crazy I live in Woodridge and used to go to Sipley school, seems like a peaceful area and now everything in woodridge is blowing up

[@Catgirl_Luna]

i still live here, there was a lot of damage, I was near the tornado route

[@Cthusiest_jeff]

I'm half a mile south of the damage path. My home was perfectly fine, but I feel so sorry for those who are now hurting from this

[@Catgirl_Luna]

That’s good to hear

[@jafarhon]

Beginning of this video 1 house out of a 3 houses is ours, just want to thank people who came and helped cleaning, cutting trees down and special thanks to our local Home Depot store, there employees all came and helped cutting trees picking up all the trash, Thanks everyone for your support.

[@Talachachannel]

I live in Bolingbrook good father 🙏 thanks for keeping safe..

[@afonsha]

"Now that's a lot of damage!" -Phil Swift

[@RayX987]

Gonna need a lot of flex tape to fix that.

[@afonsha]

@@RayX987 ask Phil swift, he will give you a ton of it. Then go fix that

[@MR_C0D3X]

“Let’s get some chicken wire, and put some flex paste on it!” -Phil Swift

[@jage5256]

Duh! Wish they shut up. I turn the sound off.

[@Stormchasing658]

Ears popped. That was close. Wishing those affected all the best. So happy it wasn’t worse.

[@roberthoffhines5419]

Yikes!

[@Stormchasing658]

@@roberthoffhines5419 big time yikes. Very scary. Hope you made it thru.

[@Og-Judy]

Perhaps weather person would be better explaining multi vortex damage and not the news anchor lady? " Maybe there were different swirly things " Good grief! 🙄

[@luuluubarabaramei8714]

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[@luuluubarabaramei8714]

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[@saraaah5596]

No kidding 🤪

[@derekdavis1932]

That helicopter is flying right over Birchwood prkwy st. Where i lived as a kid..my old stomping grounds ruined. Now im in cali. Hope everyone can recover from this.

[@patrickstar722]

Not ruined just damaged. Homer tree care got this and so do the peeps of Woodridge

[@urfavJanat]

Wow it looks like there is a lot of damage

[@johndawn4612]

@@moneyman443 too soon

[@richardrice8076]

EF3 140 MPH That'll rearrange the neighborhood.

[@heroinboblivesagain5478]

Sending prayers from La Porte

[@LuckyAlejamdro]

Northern Chicago suburbs are all good!

[@josephcingrani7161]

I'm 6floors up on the northside we watched the tornado from our balcony. Watched all the transformers blow up

[@obedreyes7737]

@@josephcingrani7161for real? Like watching a youtube video? I've live in Chicago my whole life, everytime there's a warning we always say it's okay just ignore it. To my surprise when I when I realized what I slept through

[@josephcingrani7161]

@@obedreyes7737 I recorded a few videos of the lights from the transformers and the sirens going off in the distance. We only got a lot of rain and lightning over here thankfully.

[@nanibot6246]

Yeah they are ( im from a northern chicago suburb)

[@ozhuenlxbouginsrirluhnbrtw2266]

@@josephcingrani7161 i didnt get to see any :(

[@zievv]

I am from California hope all of yall are safe 🙏 ❤ God bless

[@charlydatduclai7734]

Geez, if you compare this tornado to last year's tornado caused by a Derecho storm, this was an even bigger tornado.

[@ressewendy5177]

I'm In Canada But I was born and raised in Illinois. I just visited my dad who was Canadian, I'm so upset seeing this happened and for the people who lost their homes. I'm glad that everyone else is safe, even my mom and My cousins are safe too. Prayers for you people. 💙

[@Conundrum425]

What happen to the aerial survey of Naperville and Woodridge area that was posted a little after this clip.

[@julianfernando1997]

Did anybody get footage of the tornado?

[@jkgaming9448]

it happened at 11 at night. nobody could see the funnel

[@Snakeyes11123]

Live not too far from that area. It missed me

[@Danedza]

Definitely fun hearing my windows vibrate. Down the block you see downed power lines on the road and roofs torn off. I'm 4 block off evergreen and Janes to the west

[@TRIIGGAVELLI]

Its crazy, I'm in the city and it was slight drizzle here a 35 miles away it was the apocalypse.

[@richardrice8076]

Heck you didn't have to go 35 miles just 2 blocks and everything was fine.

[@amtrakisveryepic]

It was obviously a Multi-vortex tornado, there weren't any "Tiny cells" There was 1 main tornado that had several vortices inside it causing random damage to 1 home and not another :3

[@crispycritterz]

This is fairly common with strong tornadoes. Fortunately it wasn’t on the ground for long. There was rotation in many areas but only a couple of cells produced discrete funnels.

[@roberthoffhines5419]

Yes, or what some call "satellite" vortices whipping out from the main funnel? Must've been a very broad overall rotating body, maybe 1/3 mile to bet those outlier roofs damaged so far from the main destruction path?

[@crispycritterz]

@Jam1053428 based on early radar reports, the center of rotation may have been aloft for 10 miles even before the funnel appeared.

[@jheiny1231]

I don't think there was technically a " tornado ". I believe it was just spinning cells close to earth that had enough wind to damage trees and roofs. But I don't believe an actual tornado touch down. Nobody has pictures or videos

[@crispycritterz]

@@jheiny1231 Tornadoes at night are difficult to spot much less photograph. Combine that with the storm being rain wrapped you have a near impossible task in getting a visual on it. I was at 79th and Archer and barely saw an area of low hanging clouds that turned out to be a funnel off in the distance.

[@music.m86]

When this happened I was in a buffet with my family, luckily it wasn't near us but I was still panicking inside. Shortly after the tornado happened I got an alert for a flash flood. Started raining after but the flood wasn't that bad.

[@unknxwnsimp4875]

POV; Looking for the TikTok guy with the sign saying “HI MOM”

[@ryandonato550]

POV?

[@Star-ou7xo]

I thought it was lightning so I went back to sleep

[@ProfessorIgor]

looks like EF-2 from a quick glance...

[@johndawn4612]

Theyre thinking it might be higher tben that cus some homes in areas were flattened

[@ProfessorIgor]

@@johndawn4612 could be, I can't tell how the walls were anchored, the beam on center distance, if the roof was strapped, etc... From THIS video though, looks like EF-2.

[@itamararonson3783]

People dodged a bullet last night. That storm system had the potential of producing an EF4+ tornado

[@ryandonato550]

The Woodridge damage was EF-2. EF-1 in Darien by Lemont Rd, then EF-0 the rest of the way until the tornado lifted just before La Grange Rd.

[@johndawn4612]

@@ryandonato550 it was f3. If u look it up they gave it an f3. It completely leveled a house

[@cannonball9478]

Sub vortices cause the random damage. They spin round the parent rotation and it s lucky not get hit by one

[@mar7dong]

We Live at Woodridge il. We are Lucky that Big Valley protect us from the Tornado it swirl going to different direction.. 🙏🏽

[@alexthewombat6781]

I live in Michigan but a couple of friends I know who live there say it hit like 3 blocks from there house 😳

[@PhreakGang]

I live in Montgomery Illinois and I heard the sirens

[@TrainGuy3001]

I live 1 mi from it hit in Naperville and I was legit like confused

[@dgr5337]

Dang, I'm a town over from this. It was pretty nerve racking.

[@richardrice8076]

I was two blocks away talk about freightning.

[@dgr5337]

@@richardrice8076 Crazy!

[@dgr5337]

@@richardrice8076 I haven't seen the sun in ages, Am I right?

[@richardrice8076]

@@dgr5337 It's out now.

[@dgr5337]

@@richardrice8076 Yes, finally.. Thursday has been refreshing

[@ezequielramos5405]

For Someone is a disaster, But For Some Else Is A Blessed, More Work is Coming

[@janetjones967]

I agree

[@theogstorm9076]

The situation could have been way worse. Naperville reported 0 fatalities from Las night as of 38 minutes ago, which is amazing, because the damage there was worse than in Woodridge. Idk how close those communities are to each other because I'm from St. Louis, but definitely dodged a bullet.

[@lovinthe1320]

It's 3 miles from where the news was reporting in Naperville, to where this shot is looking at. Pictures do not do it justice. I was on the ground all day working to clear trees and clean up. Not sure how bad Naperville is.

[@theogstorm9076]

@@lovinthe1320 I helped clean up St. Louis and Joplin back in 2011, and I agree. Pictures don't do justice by a long shot.

[@tryssrt]

West Chicago in dupage county

[@XeonIsWeird]

no wonder why I heard someone tapping my window at night

[@jameschanin876]

My buddy lives on Evergreen $ 72000.00 worth of damage, I live a mile North no damage at all.

[@Johnebegood]

We all good in the farmland nothing happened out here in DeKalb county

[@allkpopislife8540]

This is the weirdest tornado I’ve ever seen. It’s like a straight line

[@ryandonato550]

Such a narrow path too. I drove thru the Woodridge area by Janes and it's like a 2 block swath.

[@oliverpohlproductions8291]

I was just a few minutes away from here.

[@elianayong]

yep my best friends neighbor’s house is ruined. the tornado left the house with the only the frame

[@jage5256]

Just don't talk. We can see it for ourselves.

[@user-px3yw9qz7b]

No cap it this was last night and I don’t live here it was rainy last night.

[@ceoofswag6348]

Elburn is fine.

[@mopthermopther]

Shootings were postponed for 30min 😀

[@ryandonato550]

This wasn't in Chicago bucko.

[@jdavisloved]

OMG NOO!! I had a tornado before and it was a wood Ridge! And I live there But my house didn’t fall down and break ❤️❤️❤️

[@mommablahblah5619]

That’s nothing

[@bagley2828]

oak park is fine

[@rosebudbaxter4671]

Kelly Riker

[@wally9188]

I was playing fortnite with my friends when the warning came on it said it was right next to my town😕, Luckily we did not get hit by it.

[@cuffedintobattle8374]

I feel bad for my friend he lives next to the tornado siren

[@alex6023guha]

Lol

[@alex6023guha]

When it goes off its like earrape to him

[@luuluubarabaramei8714]

My OMG wow wow wow

[@dannycoakley6825]

This Nader was weak Oklahoma

[@jakub8860]

The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.

[@ryandonato550]

Huh?

[@asianguru4984]

I do not care about the houses. Im thankful EVERYONE is still alive and mainly well. Houses are insured. They'll be all right. It's Naperville....rich town.

[@Kat-mz6ld]

I think this comment is a bit insensitive. Naperville may be a wealthy suburb but not everyone who lives there is wealthy or has homeowners' insurance. Even if they did, it is still sad to have the home they grew up in destroyed. Also, Woodridge is not Naperville, and it isn't nearly as wealthy.

[@ryandonato550]

@@Kat-mz6ld STOP BEING POLTICALLY CORRECT!!!! Trump is coming back in August and will fix this PC nonsense!

[@jdavisloved]

God healthy me ☺️☺️☺️

[@threadsofmadness]

It was God punishing the evil democrats! Deus Volt!

[@thesmallpockets3182]

No, God typically destroys full towns of uneducated hillbillies in the South who watch Faxe News and believe in conspiracies that never come to pass. Radical right-wing seditionists will be crushed by their own naivete.

[@ryandonato550]

@@thesmallpockets3182 This actually true. And Naperville/Woodridge leans more Republican.

[@thesmallpockets3182]

@@ryandonato550 don't ever reply to me...that sucks.

[@mahmoudelkady2155]

lol

[@luuluubarabaramei8714]

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[@luuluubarabaramei8714]

My OMG wow wow wow