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MacKenzie Fegan

October 26, 2010 • 5:45 am PDT
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It's the morning of Edge of Progress Road Trip Day Two, and things are off to a great start. Oh, except for this little news piece a friend in Chicago just forwarded to me:

"Storm To Be Among Worst in 70 Years: 'Great Lakes Cyclone to Strike Chicago Tuesday"

Good thing we're driving straight into it. Guess we'll get a chance to test out the Edge's automatic windshield wipers that know when it's raining.

Image: Tropical Storm Frank, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from gsfc's photostream

Posted in: Ford: Edge of Progress,; Environment,; Cities,; News,; Edge of Progress

Tags: environment,; weather,; transportation,; chicago,; cities,; edge of progress,; cyclone

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