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Showing posts with label Blizzard of 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blizzard of 2011. Show all posts
Thursday, February 3, 2011
And so it ends...
I'm watching a live news conference on WGN, and just heard that school will resume tomorrow. Poop.
A couple of interesting things I found in the paper so far this morning...
Bone-chilling temperatures ahead as nasty weather continues
Tales from the Frigid Front: Stuck in a surreal scene on Lake Shore Dr.
Editor's snow hero: CTA bus driver
This has become the image that is being used to represent the Blizzard of 2011. This is Lake Shore Drive, and some of the cars that were abandoned during the storm.
Here's an even better view from the air. Amazing.
Tales from the Frigid Front: Stuck in a surreal scene on Lake Shore Dr.
Editor's snow hero: CTA bus driver
This has become the image that is being used to represent the Blizzard of 2011. This is Lake Shore Drive, and some of the cars that were abandoned during the storm.
Here's an even better view from the air. Amazing.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Timelapse of West Beverly Chicago Blizzard of 2011
Bestest Friend just sent me this video. TOTALLY COOL!!!
(West Beverly is a neighborhood, not too far from my own. One of Stud's besties lives there. For those who aren't in the know, Chicagoans refer to their neighborhood when telling people where they live, as the city is so HUGE, you can't just say, "I live in Chicago.")
(West Beverly is a neighborhood, not too far from my own. One of Stud's besties lives there. For those who aren't in the know, Chicagoans refer to their neighborhood when telling people where they live, as the city is so HUGE, you can't just say, "I live in Chicago.")
Blizzard of 2011
Ok, here are just a couple of crappy pictures, because my camera keeps dying on me. Plus, I can't get out my front door to take any good pictures!
This is what was happening last night, when I told you that snow was seeping under my back door.
Dorky Dog decided to wake me up around 2 am to go out again, and this is what the door looked like then. Thankfully, I was able to open it again after Stud forced it shut.
This is the snow drift that formed up against my garage door. You can see that by 2am, it was more than half-way up my door.
This is what the door looked like at 7am when I let Dorky Dog out again. It's about 3/4 of the way covered at this point. I hope I don't have to go anywhere anytime soon!! Crap, what if we have school tomorrow?!
This was the view from my kitchen window of what my neighbor's driveway and side of her house looks like.
This is her garage door covered in it's own drift. I don't know if you can see the huge drift between her yard and her other neighbor's yard. It's as high as the chain link fence that separates their yards. Try clicking on it for an enlarged view.
I tried to get some video for you, but it's pretty crappy. It was way too snowy and the wind gusts were too strong to actually go outside, so I tried to take it from my kitchen window.
This was taken from my bedroom window. I don't think you can really see anything because it's so dark. I was trying to capture how strong the wind was blowing. We had wind gusts that hit 60 mph.
I wish I could have gotten my damn camera to turn on while it was thundering and lightening. THAT was quite a show!!
I know it's a snow day, but I think I'm going to go wake Stud up. It's already 10:30 here. That's plenty late to sleep in, don't you think? I have a feeling they may get another snow day tomorrow. They were sent home early yesterday, just like I had predicted. My poor baby sat at school for over 2 hours waiting to be picked up. The automated message I received on my phone said that they were being dismissed at 2pm, and that classes were canceled for Wednesday. They will be following a 'mass schedule' on Thursday (30 minute classes, with a full mass in the middle of the day, dismissal at 2pm) and then there is no school Friday because of a teacher institute day. So, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they just cancel tomorrow since it's a short day anyway.
Our weather is not going to get any better tomorrow. Once the snow stops, our temperatures are supposed to plunge. They're predicting temps of -5 to -20, which means windchill readings of -20 to -40. Ah, good times, good times.... I'll be really curious to see if we get another snow day tomorrow. I doubt it, but I'm still having a hard time believing we got TODAY as a snow day! It really is ridiculous to make those kids walk to school when it's below zero. So, send positive thoughts and prayers this way, if you don't mind! :)
Wish me luck, I'm off to wake a sleeping teenager!!
This is what was happening last night, when I told you that snow was seeping under my back door.
Dorky Dog decided to wake me up around 2 am to go out again, and this is what the door looked like then. Thankfully, I was able to open it again after Stud forced it shut.
This is the snow drift that formed up against my garage door. You can see that by 2am, it was more than half-way up my door.
This is what the door looked like at 7am when I let Dorky Dog out again. It's about 3/4 of the way covered at this point. I hope I don't have to go anywhere anytime soon!! Crap, what if we have school tomorrow?!
This was the view from my kitchen window of what my neighbor's driveway and side of her house looks like.
This is her garage door covered in it's own drift. I don't know if you can see the huge drift between her yard and her other neighbor's yard. It's as high as the chain link fence that separates their yards. Try clicking on it for an enlarged view.
I tried to get some video for you, but it's pretty crappy. It was way too snowy and the wind gusts were too strong to actually go outside, so I tried to take it from my kitchen window.This was taken from my bedroom window. I don't think you can really see anything because it's so dark. I was trying to capture how strong the wind was blowing. We had wind gusts that hit 60 mph.
I wish I could have gotten my damn camera to turn on while it was thundering and lightening. THAT was quite a show!!
I know it's a snow day, but I think I'm going to go wake Stud up. It's already 10:30 here. That's plenty late to sleep in, don't you think? I have a feeling they may get another snow day tomorrow. They were sent home early yesterday, just like I had predicted. My poor baby sat at school for over 2 hours waiting to be picked up. The automated message I received on my phone said that they were being dismissed at 2pm, and that classes were canceled for Wednesday. They will be following a 'mass schedule' on Thursday (30 minute classes, with a full mass in the middle of the day, dismissal at 2pm) and then there is no school Friday because of a teacher institute day. So, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they just cancel tomorrow since it's a short day anyway.
Our weather is not going to get any better tomorrow. Once the snow stops, our temperatures are supposed to plunge. They're predicting temps of -5 to -20, which means windchill readings of -20 to -40. Ah, good times, good times.... I'll be really curious to see if we get another snow day tomorrow. I doubt it, but I'm still having a hard time believing we got TODAY as a snow day! It really is ridiculous to make those kids walk to school when it's below zero. So, send positive thoughts and prayers this way, if you don't mind! :)
Wish me luck, I'm off to wake a sleeping teenager!!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
What the hell was that?!
Oh my holy hell. Have any of you ever experienced a 'thunder snow?' Holy shit!!! There was just the BIGGEST flash of lightening, and then the BIGGEST clap of thunder. It is seriously thundering and lightening outside, while the wind is gusting at like 100 miles per hour (only a slight exaggeration) and it's snowing like a mo-fo! I started taking pictures and videos for you, and my camera crapped out on me. The is a HUGE snowdrift across my garage door right now, about halfway up the door. I hope I don't have to go anywhere anytime soon. Also, the snow is blowing so hard against my backdoor that it keeps seeping in under the door. I tried to open the door and stuff a towel between the doors, but that proved to be a big mistake. My door must have swelled from all the moisture because I couldn't get it to close. Stud finally just forced it closed with his brute strength, which is great, but that probably means we're trapped in our damn house!! The snow is blowing pretty hard against the front door, too. I went to see if I could get some video for you in the front of the house, since I have a street light right in front of my house, and you can really see the snow coming down. However, the entire storm door is covered in snow! I can't see out of it.
They say we can get up to 30 inches of snow during this storm. Luckily for me, my sister and I made a midnight run to Kmart the other day, and I got sucked into the $5 bin of videos at the check out. I bought 8 movies!! Guess what I'll be doing all day tomorrow on my SNOW DAY!!!
Oo, the 10:00 news is starting. Gotta go watch the blizzard coverage. It's supposed to be worse than the Blizzard of 1967!! (be sure to check out the pictures included in this article) My dad was at work when that blizzard hit, and it took him 14 hours to get home!
I just found this crazy video clip. My favorite part is the smoking reporter!!
They say we can get up to 30 inches of snow during this storm. Luckily for me, my sister and I made a midnight run to Kmart the other day, and I got sucked into the $5 bin of videos at the check out. I bought 8 movies!! Guess what I'll be doing all day tomorrow on my SNOW DAY!!!
Oo, the 10:00 news is starting. Gotta go watch the blizzard coverage. It's supposed to be worse than the Blizzard of 1967!! (be sure to check out the pictures included in this article) My dad was at work when that blizzard hit, and it took him 14 hours to get home!
I just found this crazy video clip. My favorite part is the smoking reporter!!
Friday Flashback: The Chicago Blizzard of 1967: MyFoxCHICAGO.com
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