HIGH WINDS IN CHICAGO—SOME FAMILY HISTORY.

HIGH WINDS IN CHICAGO—SOME FAMILY HISTORY. Winds of over 80 miles an hour hit Chicago yesterday. A school teacher in a Chicago suburb was impaled while in her car by an oak tree branch that fell about 65 feet. She is in fair condition as this article. says. Kids, one of our family stories was about a collateral relative on my father’s side of the family who was killed in a tornado while in her living room by a two by four that was driven through the wall. This would have been one of the Palm Sunday tornadoes described in this wikipedia article. My father lost his father in that same year when he was hit by a car that drove up on the sidewalk. These events may explain why my father was always worried about black swan events.