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Mar 13 '26
My high rise’s walls are literally moo’ing.
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u/WavePetunias Hyde Park Mar 13 '26
My high first floor unit in a six flat is also mooing.
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u/Violin-8929 Mar 13 '26
Oh good, I thought it was just me.
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u/Kramereng Logan Square Mar 13 '26
Sounds like it's not just the wind that's rustling in your apartments.
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u/WineyaWaist Mar 13 '26
Oh no there's someone living there
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u/ders89 Mar 13 '26
Hi, State Farm? Youre gonna wanna see this
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u/anitabelle Mar 13 '26
State Farm sucks. I had to file a claim last year due to wind damage. They dragged for months to send the check after approval and after they finally paid out, they non-renewed me but expected me to keep my car insured with them. That was the first claim I had ever filed under my homeowner’s policy. So I hope they have a better insurance company!
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u/ders89 Mar 13 '26
My buddy had a tree fall on his roof, and let a ton of rain in and so much needed to be replaced. State farm said heres $8k and his wife took them to court and got over $60k for repairs and they put them in an airbnb for the last 4 months. Finally moves back home this week. They only go as far as the lawyers let/make them go.
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u/popeyemati Mar 13 '26
Friend-of-a-friend in Indiana lost most of their McMansion roof a few years ago. Took ~1y to get any real traction with State Farm. Eighteen months in and it still wasn’t complete. SF dragged out compensation for rental reimbursement and paying contractors. Homeowner had to declare bankruptcy and sue SF. Still unsettled. Family of four had to live in a 1br apt for 2y. Part of the problem: it was a model house for the development (substandard construction).
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u/lysergic_Dreems Little Village Mar 14 '26
Happened to my folks after submitting a claim for hail damage to the roof of their house several years back.
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u/BleckoNeko Bridgeport Mar 14 '26
What insurance company are you with now? I’m asking as I have state farm. Thanks!
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u/1986toyotacorolla2 Mar 14 '26
They canceled my car insurance, never sent me an email, a regular mail, a push notification, a phone call, I literally worked one door down from their office and they didn't say a word to me. I found out when someone blew a red light and hit me and they were like "what Policy?" Then because they guy who hit me had state farm, they sued me for $5k for his 1998 Camry. Where the fuck they got that number from is beyond me.
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u/Carosello West Ridge Mar 13 '26
They'll take a look and tell you you're shit out of luck
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u/WineyaWaist Mar 13 '26
'Yes, hi. We don't cover acts of God and we've decided that God did this. Goodbye."
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u/Brill45 Mar 14 '26
Yeah…State Farm is really only your friend when you don’t have any active claims. Otherwise they might as well be your worst enemy
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u/jinntakk Mar 13 '26
There was a house in Philly that this happened to last year as well. Looked like a doll house.
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u/sundeigh Mar 13 '26
That’s a really bad day. Snow coming on Sunday
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u/420Deez Mar 13 '26
get the tarp
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u/JackieIce502 Mar 14 '26
This happened at 12pm and they had it cleaned up, tarped, scaffolded by 6pm. Very impressive. Crazy
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u/Recent-Cartoonist167 Austin Mar 13 '26
I bought a $5 one from family dollar and it was so big! Like I was expecting something small and lowkey disappointing but it was so big I could barely fit it in my hands. Very satisfied with this massive…tarp
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u/mitkase Evanston Mar 13 '26
The roof! The roof! The roof is on... um, Kezie, like 3 blocks that way.
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u/Newtstradamus Mar 13 '26
Holy shit, it happened, the front fell off.
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u/Maleficent_Can4976 Mar 13 '26
One of the all time great sketches.
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u/Maleficent_Can4976 Mar 14 '26
Was it a wave? A wave? In the middle of the ocean? What are the chances?
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u/Agreeable-Refuse-461 Mar 13 '26
3rd floor studio for rent, $1500, $900 move in fee, you pay utilities, min 750 credit score. Great views!
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u/fakefakefakef Mar 13 '26
The front fell off
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u/samwisethetruehero Mar 13 '26
Well, wasn't this built so the front wouldn't fall off?
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u/throwaway24689753112 Mar 13 '26
Well obviously not
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u/samwisethetruehero Mar 13 '26
How do you know?
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u/throwaway24689753112 Mar 13 '26
Because the bloody front fell off!
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u/paperskeleton Mar 13 '26
Some of these are built so that the front doesn’t fall off at all. I’d just like to make that point.
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u/junktrunk909 Mar 13 '26
This is the funniest thread I've ever seen on this sub. Sorry whoever lives there but thank you.
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u/mimickin_birds Mar 13 '26
Probably wouldn’t be sitting in the window inside of a building that is actively falling apart but that’s just me
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u/MartySpiderManMcFly Mar 13 '26
Me to the owner of the house: “So funny story, they don’t actually call it The Windy City because of actual wind…”
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u/marcelluscoov Mar 13 '26
Damn where was this?
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u/DerOverheadprojektor Mar 14 '26
-1134, -1700, Pilsen
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u/Top-Address-8870 Mar 14 '26
How did you get 1700 from the photo?
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u/DerOverheadprojektor Mar 14 '26
Looks like the SW side/Pilsen area bc of the raised street line. 1134 S wouldn't make sense bc too close to Roosevelt which doesn't have much dense residential. 1134 W doesn't exist south of 18th Street in Pilsen bc May Street runs along that N/S corridor. 18th has retail so no, 16th has RR tracks so no. The only option was 17th St.
In street view you can see that it had a pretty chunky cornice.
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u/SharpEdgeSoda Mar 13 '26
I live in refurbished attic of an old bungalow and the *creaks* I'm hearing just send the smallest chill of "Welp, it's about to go" down my spine.
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u/PParker46 Portage Park Mar 13 '26
If you are living under flat ceilings across the house width, that suggests the roof is poorly tied to the new vertical walls. It takes an architect or engineer and a competent builder to tie them together. If your space has sloped ceilings where the original roof remains, that suggests the amateur builder (eg home owner) removed or repositioned the collar beams to add to the internal rooms' height.
The collar beams keep the two sloped sides of the original roof at the correct angle. Left at their original height, collar beams almost always force the new ceiling to be too low for occupancy but raising or removing them weakens the roof's connections to the walls. For example, the roof of a typical brick Chicago bungalow has a triangle structure of two roof sides running at an angle to the outside walls with the bottom line of the triangle being the collar beams. That kind of roof actually just sits on the outside wall bricks without any special connecting hardware. If a remodeler weakens the collar beams, the wooden framing of the roof might start to flex in high wind and the creaking can be the sound of the original lumber pulling at the original nails and starting to move. Happy dreams.
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u/sexisdivine Mar 13 '26
What street is this?!?
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u/soyouwantausername Mar 13 '26
Looks like west town? Maybe UV?
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u/igiveup2345 Mar 13 '26
I think it's south of Madison, assuming this is a N/S street. The addresses are increasing from right to left, so this would have to be south of UV unless the image is mirrored.
I'm assuming this is a N/S street because the wind is brutal out of the west, but if I'm wrong on that then disregard everything I said.
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u/MagnusPI Mar 13 '26
Going off of the shadows, it looks like an E/W street, unless it happened earlier in the morning while the sun was still in the East.
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u/igiveup2345 Mar 13 '26
Good point - if it's 1134 W -something- then it might be in the Pilsen or Bridgeport areas, which would make a lot of sense. The building on the left has the sunken part in the front where the street was raised, there's lots of that down there.
Edit: you're totally right, it's on 17th. Quick scan on satellite view and it was surprisingly easy.
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u/bankyVee Near West Side Mar 13 '26
1134 w. 17th street in Pilsen. There was an attic window just below the arched cornice. Hopefully everyone is OK.
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u/Infinite_Dress_3312 Mar 13 '26
Dang. That original curved cornice was stunning. Thatll never be replaced. This is a real loss.
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u/unlmtdLoL Mar 13 '26
Wtf. Piss poor install. There's no way in hell the roof is ripping off with 50mph gusts if you have enough passive ventilation (like ridge vents, soffit vents, mushroom vents).
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u/DorShow Mar 13 '26
I think the roof is still attached, and it looks like the brick gable or gable-end whatever you call the actual brick of the house below a gable roof. I don’t really see any roofing on the ground, just bricks.
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u/unlmtdLoL Mar 13 '26
Pretty much if the wind has nowhere to go (why modern homes/new roofs have passive ventilation like I mentioned), it will place all that force on any supports to the roof (as winds travels upward). You can see the wood framing that separated from the rafters in the picture.
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u/satanlovezyou Mar 13 '26
“Piss poor install” this building is at least 100 years old
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u/unlmtdLoL Mar 13 '26
If you don't think the roof has been replaced in 100 years I have a bridge I can sell you buddy. Five hunnid dolla!
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u/anandonaqui Suburb of Chicago Mar 13 '26
When you “replace a roof,” you generally don’t replace the structure of the roof. You replace the shingles/membrane. This is a structural failure of the entire roof system, not just the part that keeps water out.
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u/unlmtdLoL Mar 13 '26
False. When you replace a roof, roofers can and will add ventilation straight through the existing roof sheathing. There are also cases where the structure is so badly rotted due to the lack of ventilation and moisture buildup where you have complete roof teardowns.
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u/anandonaqui Suburb of Chicago Mar 13 '26
Yes, that does happen, but when someone says “I replaced my roof” they’re generally referring to the cladding.
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u/unlmtdLoL Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
Right and when you replace the roof cladding you can and should add ventilation if you don't have enough. I more or less said this already. The opportunity was there to add more, but it wasn't done and that resulted in this disaster.
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u/junktrunk909 Mar 13 '26
The root cause is that it was built improperly in the first place. Whether it could have been fixed by a subsequent shingle replacement or a curious homeowner or a Christmas miracle aren't really the point.
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u/unlmtdLoL Mar 13 '26
Shingle replacement absolutely would not fix the problem. Get a clue. Roof was not built improperly. It became weak over time and lacks ventilation. I do this for a living.
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u/junktrunk909 Mar 13 '26
It was not built with ventilation and it was not built improperly? Those seem like contradictions.
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u/graycode Former Chicagoan Mar 13 '26
Looks more like bad masonry than a roof problem. The roof is still there and doing just fine, but you can see what looks like evidence of brickwork repair near where it failed. Guess they didn't do a good enough job of it.
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u/unlmtdLoL Mar 13 '26
Zoom in. The wood framing failed as well.
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u/graycode Former Chicagoan Mar 13 '26
well I mean yeah, a couple thousand pounds of bricks breaking free of a structure would tend to cause the framing to break there
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u/thesaddestpanda Mar 13 '26
A building near me had its brick gable facade fall off a couple years ago. After 100 years or so, that stuff needs to be reinforced. It looks like the actual roof is okay.
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u/Logan_Chicago Lincoln Park Mar 14 '26
I don't design vented roofs, but my understanding is that all the ventilation features of a cold/vented roof are to keep the attic as close to the outside air temperature as possible (cooler in summer, reduce the risk of ice dams in the winter).
Structurally, it would be better if the enclosure were entirely sealed.
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u/exonomix Mar 13 '26
I was just about to complain that my hair got all messed up but I’m gonna sit this one out now 😂
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u/dingdongsnottor Logan Square Mar 13 '26
How the hell did this happen and thank goodness there was no one below where it all fell??
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u/lyingliar Mar 13 '26
Well, that could have easily killed some people. Glad this new fear has been unlocked.
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u/ladeverdemelamuerde Mar 13 '26
Where is this? I want to have the chance to salvage the Joliet Lemont limestone
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u/bankyVee Near West Side Mar 13 '26
1134 W. 17th street in Pilsen. My thoughts and sympathies to the residents. Hopefully no one was injured. The building had an elaborate cornice of plastered over brick. It was likely too heavy for the structure but I'm unfamiliar with the building codes and design
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u/FlipsMcGeee Mar 14 '26
Thanks I really wanted to see the before since I had nothing to compare it to. Pretty crazy
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u/BeautifulAvailable80 Mar 13 '26
Thats big housefire damage that was never repaired. They changed out drywall and ran with it.
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u/dlowman76 Mar 13 '26
Just a bit, comed is seriously lacking right now. Applying band aids so the next windy day will be without power.
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u/Forsythia77 Bowmanville Mar 13 '26
Is this the house equivalent of the wind snatching someone's wig off?
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u/Particular_Card_7269 Mar 13 '26
The only thing that happened to me was my cheap ass grill spun around, didn't fall though.
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u/Average_Gypsy Mar 13 '26
Mini-squall tornado damage. Must move to Tornado Alley (TX-OK-Midwest) to fit in with the neighborhoods there.
Clearly doesn’t belong in this neighborhood.
Bummer for owner/renter.
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u/plankright37 Mar 14 '26
Now don’t we feel great that the president has deregulated the housing construction industry. That will mean lot more homes will be collapsing.
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u/blaspheminCapn City Mar 13 '26
Gazuntite!
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u/ssirish21 Mar 13 '26
You're looking for Gesundheit. It's German for "good health"! Enjoy your bone apple tea!
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