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60 MPH Gusts Not Windy Enough For Man With Leaf Blower

By Patty Wetli | January 11, 2017 5:57am
 Gusts grounded flights and shut down streets, but it wasn't windy enough for one Chicagoan.
Gusts grounded flights and shut down streets, but it wasn't windy enough for one Chicagoan.
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DNAinfo/Patty Wetli

LINCOLN SQUARE — Tuesday's high winds grounded hundreds of flights at O'Hare and shut down city streets.

But the gales weren't quite forceful enough for one Chicagoan as he made his routine maintenance rounds.

"Pshaw," we suppose he said, as he judged Mother Nature's 60-mile-per-hour gusts inadequate for the task of leaf removal.

"This is a job for gas-powered tools," he apparently thought.

And he reached for his leaf blower. And blew.

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