We Just Had A Live Window Washer Rescue In Downtown Chicago On Your Lunch Break

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Apparently the CFD is out here saving lives while the skies open up and mother nature takes a nice healthy piss all over the city. Good on them and as always with the CFD they can claim their beef whenever. Between the guy starting to panic, his rope breaking, the rain coming on and nearby lightning strikes this sounds like an absolute fucking nightmare for everyone involved. And of course no surprise the CFD comes through in the clutch.

Lost in the shuffle though is the fact these guys are washing windows during a storm. Makes me think – is washing windows like washing your car? If I get the car washed and it rains later, I’m pissed. We all are. Is that the same for window washers or is a 58-story River North condo building a different animal than my affordable yet spacious midsize sedan? I feel like thunderstorms = you get a pass on the ropes. If that makes me a pussy then so be it. I’ll be a huge pussy over here on the ground doing big pussy things like taking a day off work.

Understandably though the Window Washing community probably doesn’t have a flexible work schedule. Probably can’t just walk off a job site and get a call back next week for another project so I’m sympathetic to the cash-based contractor just looking for work. All around a shitty set of circumstances that apparently could have been much worse.