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Originally Posted by Medtrans
We are in the midst of looking for our forever house in TV. Then last week's sinkhole happened and we sat back all week wondering what we should do. I read all the threads including insurance, where else would you live, etc. I even checked other areas in Arizona. THEN Friday night happened. We live in the north suburbs of Chicago. We went to bed and then all of a sudden we heard a loud boom. Was it thunder? Nope, we heard sirens after. Turns out that a house 4 or 5 miles away exploded and was leveled, damaging other homes around it. The lady who lived there had called for a gas smell, left the house and it blew up. These are multi-million dollar houses on at a private golf course, one I had attended a luncheon at for my golf season (not that I'm playing there, just had the luncheon there) on Thursday. When I got out of my car there was a horrible smell and I thought it was fertilizer for the course but thinking about it now maybe not. So to make a long story not so short, things happen and once we get all the ins info straight we will move full steam ahead. We won't let the sinkhole stop us from our dream. I hope this helps others who may have the same thoughts that we did but not so much anymore.
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I am glad you feel that way!!!!!
I'm a native Chicagoan. You may know that there have been sinkhole happenings there too. Many don't know the entire Chicago lakefront was moved by engineers and they reversed the river that runs through town. Over the history of the building of Chicago, much earth was rearranged. I am sure you remember when a hole accidentally got poked in the Chicago river bottom and a great flood happened in the basements of many large downtown office buildings, where all the mechanicals are housed. Even the Board of Trade was affected. It was a mess, yet downtown rents and real estate prices did not suffer.
One sinkhole I remember in past years took out the bottom of a downtown parking garage and sucked a few parked cars down as well.
As a kid, living in the South Shore area, we could count on tornados every summer. I lived through three that came down our block… one ripping the facade off every brick house on the opposite side of our street. Looked like a row of doll's houses afterward- you could see every interior.
(over the years, weather patterns gradually shifted and most tornados landed elsewhere- but for many years, they called the south side
'tornado valley') Snowstorms used to hit hardest south of the city. Now, the North shore gets more of the toughest of them.
We have (earthquake) fault lines across Illinois, too. And quite a few areas considered floodplains, but it hasn't stopped people from wanting to live and love there.
As many have said, any area one chooses will have it's own environmental makeup and things to consider.
If you have lived in Chicago, you can handle anything.
And most of HERE is very good, indeed.
