It started snowing yesterday afternoon. And it kept going for 24 hours straight. On top of that, the wind whipped it all around. They're calling it Blizzard 2011.
O'Hare got 20.2" of snow. That's a lot for this part of the world. In fact, it's the third biggest snow storm on record for Chicago.
I went to work today. Yeah, yeah, I know. That's not the smartest thing I've ever done. I spent an hour digging out my driveway this morning...just enough to get the car to the street. To my surprise, the street was freshly plowed. I figured if my piddly street was plowed, it would be no sweat getting to work. Hmm. Morton Grove was really good. Skokie was not so good. But I did manage to get to work without incident. My coworker James was the only other team member who made it. He lived four blocks away and walked.
O'Hare got 20.2" of snow. That's a lot for this part of the world. In fact, it's the third biggest snow storm on record for Chicago.
I went to work today. Yeah, yeah, I know. That's not the smartest thing I've ever done. I spent an hour digging out my driveway this morning...just enough to get the car to the street. To my surprise, the street was freshly plowed. I figured if my piddly street was plowed, it would be no sweat getting to work. Hmm. Morton Grove was really good. Skokie was not so good. But I did manage to get to work without incident. My coworker James was the only other team member who made it. He lived four blocks away and walked.
Then I came home and shoveled the driveway for another hour.
It's looking really good now though. Neatness counts?See how high the piles got? The shovel is 51" long. I'm 63" tall. Clearly I was lifting the snow over my head...
I gave up shoveling the sidewalk. It was like digging through concrete...at least two feet deep.
The wind made some fascinating snow drifts. Right next to my garage (right) it was practically bare. But it was several feet up the wall of my neighbor's house.
Nobody lives in this house across the street. The snow is up to the windows.
The front of that house was somewhat like the back of my house. The drifts are at least waist high.
Objects tended to have a swale around them, like the air conditioner and the small tree in the foreground. Also check out the "wall" in front of my basement windows (under the overhang). Weird, huh?
