As an inflatable emergency slide fell from an airplane and through the clear blue sky toward her house, Laura Devitt, was staring at a computer screen in her upstairs office, and her parents were feeding her son, a toddler, blueberries in the next room.
The slide landed Monday afternoon with a boom as it clipped the edge of her roof, damaging shingles, a window screen and a downspout before landing on a raised bed of cherry tomatoes and adjacent lawn in the backyard of her Norridge home.
