Our power went out again at 7 last night. Still hasn't been restored. At a cafe right now. Temp in my house was 53 when I left.

Our door is nearly covered, i'm gonna have to go down our scary back stairs.

 

I didn't even try and clear off our walkway to front doory or right in front of front door. That is a lost cause.

Straight up white out conditions right now.

Visibility is about 10 feet right now in Chicago.

Edited February 2, 201115 yr by IlliniKrush

It was pretty funny walking down the street to Cafe Mustache. Looking down California avenue all you could see is a few scattered souls plodding along in the middle of the road. It looked like a zombie apocalypse.

I just tried to make it to the logan square blue line and couldn't make it. The drifts here are unreal and the streets aren't plowed. I am soaking wet from the waist down. f***ing a. This is the real deal.

Where do you live at now, bmags? I didn't realize you were in Logan.

Stopped snowing here. Gonna give the driveway one last blow for now.

One of my programmers called me last night, from a CTA bus on the Drive. He got on it at 4:45pm... was still on it after 10pm. Apparently they were still rescuring people even this morning from LSD. Dude got home at midnight - 7 hour commute.

 

Worked from home this morning, then walked a few blocks through the arctic wasteland to catch a 9:30am train (Metra is on Sunday schedule). Website said it was running. Got to the station, and the announcement came over that this train, and the next one, were cancelled.

 

I give up, I'm working from home today.

 

Snow when NOT drifted was about mid-thigh deep here in Northbrook, drifts are 4-5 feet. But the sun just peeked out for a minute! Now its snowing again.

 

 

I wake up to work at 5 every day. Today I woke up and heard Mulli and Hanley say that North Ave. from 59 to 355 was unpassable. I got excited because that's the route my dad and I take to work, but I didn't fall back asleep because my dad told his people that we would have work today. So we shovel the driveway all the way to the street, which hasn't been touched. He tries the street anyway, gets stuck. We're about 10 houses from the entrance to the subdivision shoveling in front of the car till we get to the mouth of the subdivision. Some guys helped us out along the way with their snowblowers, so bless them, but when we're 4 houses from the end maybe 2.5 hours into it the city plowers make it through the subdivision and effortlessly clean the street. Wow.

 

2 people bothered to show up at work.

I wake up to work at 5 every day. Today I woke up and heard Mulli and Hanley say that North Ave. from 59 to 355 was unpassable. I got excited because that's the route my dad and I take to work, but I didn't fall back asleep because my dad told his people that we would have work today. So we shovel the driveway all the way to the street, which hasn't been touched. He tries the street anyway, gets stuck. We're about 10 houses from the entrance to the subdivision shoveling in front of the car till we get to the mouth of the subdivision. Some guys helped us out along the way with their snowblowers, so bless them, but when we're 4 houses from the end maybe 2.5 hours into it the city plowers make it through the subdivision and effortlessly clean the street. Wow.

 

2 people bothered to show up at work.

 

 

Why would your dad possibly insist people come in today? I don't think it's a matter of people not "bothering" to show up...it's that they couldn't show up.

Anyone who works in an office or something not "life or death" is an idiot if they tried to go to work today.

Anyone who works in an office or something not "life or death" is an idiot if they tried to go to work today.

Agreed. Unless you're an ER doctor stay the f*** home.

 

I could imagine if some company insisted their office workers come in today to find out some of their employees were injured, or worse, trying to make it in.

Epic failure by Daley for not shutting down LSD given the warnings.

 

Why would your dad possibly insist people come in today? I don't think it's a matter of people not "bothering" to show up...it's that they couldn't show up.

 

It's a CNC shop, and we have a lot of open orders that come due this month. To be fair to my dad, he said if you can't make it, no harm. One of the guys that showed up is from the southside of Chicago and ended up waiting since 8 till we got here.

Anyone who works in an office or something not "life or death" is an idiot if they tried to go to work today.

 

 

Agreed. Unless you're an ER doctor stay the f*** home.

 

I could imagine if some company insisted their office workers come in today to find out some of their employees were injured, or worse, trying to make it in.

 

The trading markets are all open. You can't just not show up with a book on the market, and let it just sit there. You'd get killed financially. Some people have to work. I tried to get in, couldn't, and I'm working from home.

 

The trading markets are all open. You can't just not show up with a book on the market, and let it just sit there. You'd get killed financially. Some people have to work. I tried to get in, couldn't, and I'm working from home.

 

There are very few jobs that I could see an exception. I guess that'd be one.

Epic failure by Daley for not shutting down LSD given the warnings.

 

 

Is this now? The storm mostly bypassed me in NY. Got ice but it was a little south of where it was supposed to be so I made it into work today.

My personal before/after driveway stories.

 

 

Agreed. Unless you're an ER doctor stay the f*** home.

 

I could imagine if some company insisted their office workers come in today to find out some of their employees were injured, or worse, trying to make it in.

 

My fiance's mom had to be at work today at 5am. She's a dialysis nurse, can't really put that treatment off for a day.

 

We just spent 2 hours digging out our parking lot with a bunch of other people in our building. Our building was the only one doing this, though. Everyone else is going to be iced in come tomorrow.

Epic failure by Daley for not shutting down LSD given the warnings.

 

Given the warnings, drivers should have avoided that road.

Given the warnings, drivers should have avoided that road.

What other, more likely to be passable route was available? If I'm forced to be at work, and I have to get home somehow, what do I think is more likely to be passable, a major artery that has some stoplights, or internal city streets?

What other, more likely to be passable route was available? If I'm forced to be at work, and I have to get home somehow, what do I think is more likely to be passable, a major artery that has some stoplights, or internal city streets?

 

Even if the answer is none, how does it help to close that artery? The road was passable until accidents blocked the road.

Even if the answer is none, how does it help to close that artery? The road was passable until accidents blocked the road.

 

Right, it seemed like the combination of 3 accidents within 15-30 minutes right when the storm was getting worse was what did it in.

 

Now we have to try to get to the house we just bought and shovel out that driveway before it ices over.

Edited February 2, 201115 yr by StrangeSox

What other, more likely to be passable route was available? If I'm forced to be at work, and I have to get home somehow, what do I think is more likely to be passable, a major artery that has some stoplights, or internal city streets?

 

Most Chicagoans that aren't mostly brain dead are aware that LSD is a lot more unstable when it comes to weather than all the other major arteries that we have to drive on. I for one don't even need to be warned that it might be a problem driving on that road even when the weather is half as bad as forecasted yesterday. But we are all capable of brainfarts every now and then.