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[Human_Shield]

I have no idea how much snow I just finished shoveling, but I suspect my shoulder and back will let me know tomorrow morning.

 

[Chamber]

Smh. My apartment isn't plowing until tomorrow.

At least my cable seems to be steady right now.

 

[whytemyke]

My car this morning. Then I spent forever digging it out just to have work tell me that they decided not to open today.

 

[Drewsky]

My car this morning. Then I spent forever digging it out just to have work tell me that they decided not to open today.

You dug that out? What a beast.

I didn't get much snow where I live, just a couple inches lightly sprinkled on top of another two inches of ice.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Andersonville at the corner of Clark and Foster as of about 12PM. The roads are semi-plowed but the sidewalks seem totally impassable. Nothing is open, not even the liquor store across the street which is usually open 365 days a year. The drifting and wind are especially bad:

That's my neighborhood as well. I haven't been out since I came home at 4 last night.

 

[mrmyth]

South 'burbs here. My wife laughed at me when I bought a snowthrower with a two-foot tall scoop and a 12hp engine/8 speeds. Its the biggest one on the block. I hate shoveling snow.


Today my giant snowthrower was swallowed whole by the snow in my driveway alone. I had to nibble chunks off the drifts created by the plows down by the street.

But I'm done while my neighbors are still chugging at it, and I did two other driveways plus the sidewalks on my corner lot.

One of my cats loves going outside so much we actually bought a leash for him. He gets walked like a dog. Today he did a Legolas walking on top of the huge drifts in the side yard while my son tried to push through snow up to his hips.

 

[KoruptData]

^weird kitty.

 

[Talon]

Adorable!

@mrmyth Haha, a cat that loves going outside.

 

[Aquavelvaman]

School closed again tomorrow. I got a whole week off because of this business >>

 

[Grimm Fandango]

School closed again tomorrow. I got a whole week off because of this business >>

Classes only canceled until 10am for me.

But more importantly an exam was postponed until whenever. Thank you based snow god.

 

[Jugendstil]

That's my neighborhood as well. I haven't been out since I came home at 4 last night.

Yeah, well after your ordeal last night I don't blame you. You aren't missing anything. The only people out are photographers and people walking dogs.

 

[Yaweee]

I managed to mostly shovel down the 2ft wall behind my low-riding SW2. We'll see if I can actually make it out... Friday, or something, whenever I leave my complex.

And the worst part about this is that I think my graduate adviser's flight back from Hawaii has been delayed, so I can't okay this time off with him. Darn.

I kind of expect things to get back to normal tomorrow, for most people. 2 days off for this? That's just crazy.

 

[Scuba Steve]

Lake County here

We got f'd in the b

 

[Dice]

Snow day. Time to have some fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykmvv7Thh2I

 

[dark_chris]

Andersonville at the corner of Clark and Foster as of about 12PM. The roads are semi-plowed but the sidewalks seem totally impassable. Nothing is open, not even the liquor store across the street which is usually open 365 days a year. The drifting and wind are especially bad:

The worst is the cold. The wind was already pretty brutal and it's only going to get colder tonight. I gotta give props to the CTA, I still saw buses running despite all of this.

Here's hoping I can work from home tomorrow.

Whoa shit I live right by there! two blocks! lol.

 

[whytemyke]

Snow day. Time to have some fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykmvv7Thh2I

That looks like fun!!

 

[EvilDick34]

I'm not going to say who i work for but it disgusts me that we were open today. We had at the last count i heard 40+ call offs for today including me. Why does a corporation think it a great idea to stay open when they know they will have massive call offs from a shit ton of snow and dangerous conditions??? I get that people need supplies and stuff but those people should have stocked up the days before leading up to this crap.

 

[Zoe]

Absolutely no snow in Austin, but the state-wide mandatory rolling blackouts do not mix with an IT company. So no work!

Of course I had no idea there were no blackouts cause my energy company rocks, so I still showed up to work at 9:15 to a pitch black parking garage.

 

[Snowblindvictim]

 

[VelvetMouth]

So that means Boulderites wear long sleeves with their vests, instead of just tshirts.

Things have changed. All the schools are closed except for CU. When it snows in Boulder now driving from CU to your house 5 minutes away takes over an hour. I blame all the Californians turning us into pussies.

It's sunny and blue skies today and one fantastic thing about Colorado and a south facing house, my driveway and sidewalk is all melted off while my neighbors across the street can't leave their houses without the fear of breaking bones on the ice.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Whoa shit I live right by there! two blocks! lol.

Andersonville GAF represent! That's t least three of us.

 

[dark_chris]

Andersonville GAF represent! That's t least three of us.

Thats awesome =]

 

[The Lamonster]

I actually said earlier that 'it's like Hoth out there.'

 

[Black-Wind]

The snow is all the way up to my balls, this is crazy! Last time I remember it being this high was when I was lil

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

Things have changed. All the schools are closed except for CU. When it snows in Boulder now driving from CU to your house 5 minutes away takes over an hour. I blame all the Californians turning us into pussies.

It's sunny and blue skies today and one fantastic thing about Colorado and a south facing house, my driveway and sidewalk is all melted off while my neighbors across the street can't leave their houses without the fear of breaking bones on the ice.

*sigh* Damnit Boulder. However, the Oasis is opening again! In the form of Los Oasis!

East Lakeview GAF here.

 

[Lebron]

Awesome, cancelled classes for tomorrow too since it's just frozen ice out there hah.

 

[Davey Cakes]

This day's been pretty wacky. Snow, rain, freezing rain, hail, thunder, and lightning. Should I be scared?

 

[Aquavelvaman]

Heh (image from NASA)

 

[dark_chris]

Just thought I'd share this. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZh1tSKHZdU

 

[clip]

The Kennedy @ Jefferson Park

Some street

 

[Noshino]

YES!

Just got called by my superior to let me know that tomorrow we are not working either (Great Lakes Naval Base)

I had watch tomorrow from 6 til 12! THIS IS SO AWESOME!

 

[thebaroness]

GreyMatter and I took a trip down to Lake Michigan to look at the aftermath. The whole lake was frozen over with snow blown all over the frozen sand. It was so cool looking!

Me sitting in a frozen wave.

There were quite a few people there either walking their dogs or taking photos like us.

 

[Jugendstil]

The Kennedy @ Jefferson Park

Some street

Nice! What kind of camera/lens were you using?

 

[Grimm Fandango]

Most of the snow is about 20 inches high. Unless a plow comes through the alley, these cars ain't going no where.

 

[Lebron]

Motherfucking ice, it's like a damn ice skating rink outside. I literally just slid back to my dorm. I'm kind of wishing we got owned with the snow instead.

 

[Dice]

Woah, my package (which I ordered Monday) actually made it from PA to the distribution center in Hodgkins, IL. If they can make it downstate to deliver it tomorrow I just might offer one of these to the UPS guy:

 

[clip]

Nice! What kind of camera/lens were you using?

Just an old Nikon D50 with the kit 28-80mm lens.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Re: Ames, Iowa - There is actually a big Iowa contingent on GAF. There's a handful of peeps from Iowa City, too.

I lived in Cedar Rapids / Iowa City until I moved to San Francisco ~3 years ago.

Iowa City represent, here. In Oregon now, but I consider Iowa home. I kinda wish I was in Iowa right now, I love crazy weather like this. Fun to see such a big Iowa GAF showing.

 

[whytemyke]

The Tribune has a collection of photos from the blizzard. Some are cool, some stupid, but worth perusing if you're bored.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-110201-monster-snowstorm-2011-pictures,0,6718278.photogallery



also, does anyone know if they've opened up the freeways yet? last I heard the ike was shut down but that was earlier this afternoon

 

[dabig2]

The Tribune has a collection of photos from the blizzard. Some are cool, some stupid, but worth perusing if you're bored.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-110201-monster-snowstorm-2011-pictures,0,6718278.photogallery

Good pics, but this picture disturbs me

A dog wanders above Lake Shore Drive where dozens of vehicles were stranded in the storm.


I need to know what happened to this poor dog!

 

[Drewsky]

I just went outside for the first time in 3 days to try to start my car. Fell on my ass going down the stairs, my right cheek hurts so damn bad.

It took me about 20 minutes to work the door to my car open too.

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

Now the Coldpocalypse starts.

 

[besada]

Mandatory rolling blackouts in Dallas. Apparently people are eating up too much energy so they are killing power every 30 minutes to everyone.

I had two all day yesterday, both times it was off for about twenty minutes. It'll be warm again by this weekend, so you can enjoy the Superbowl. We'll be hiding from the influx of out-of-staters.

 

[whytemyke]

Now the Coldpocalypse starts.

no kidding dude. gonna be cold out! they were saying wind chills would be around -30 today, but luckily right now it's only like -9 windchill so it's not THAT bad.

still sucks hearing from my sister who moved to miami back in the fall.

 

[MIMIC]

I went to bed around 12am Monday night/Tuesday morning and got up at 5am (Cleveland). It was NOT snowing when I went to bed.

When I woke up, I peered out the window and thought, "Hmmm...it didn't snow too bad." I must have still been half asleep.

I stepped outside and my foot SANK and was covered by 5 or 6 inches of snow. That much snow fell within 5 hours. We WERE, after all, in a Winter Storm Warning but I've been tuning them out recently because it's always a "Cry Wolf" scenario: they predict a foot of snow, we get a light dusting; they predict a dusting, we get a blizzard. lol Well they were right this time.

On Wednesday, everything was pretty much closed because of the ice storm (I work in the school district and they were closed as well).

Also, it was hilarious to see Jim Cantore freaking out over the thunder snow in Chicago...or where ever he was. Midwest weather = REDONKULOUS

 

[Kibbles]

I ordered an amazon prime item on Tuesday night with 2day shipping. Checked it today and it says estimated delivery is February 14th and it still hasn't shipped. When I first prdered it said I would get I on the 4th. WTFBBQ? The snow shouldnt've delayed it that long, if at all...

Nvm just reordered it. Someone mustve bought it just as I did and the stock ran out, so I got it from a different seller, still Prime thankfully.

 

[whytemyke]

LSD is reopened!

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/LSD-Reopens-115174489.html


Also, Ignatz, there's a website where you can find out where they took your car.

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/rev/dataset/foialog1.html

kinda cool, I think.

 

[mug]

My office has been closed for 3 days now... Cabin fever sucks.

 

[madara]

Shoveled 88 year old man car out 6am this morning. 85 year old woman's at 10am. Wish I could do their porches too but the drifts touch the gutters. Is it normal to get tightness and electric shock like waistband around the chest with such cold temps? Trying figure it out if its MS or something due to neg windshield exposure.

 

[TylerD]

That "abondoned" shot on Lake Shore Drive is just wild. If that happened in Oklahoma City it would be chaos. We were pretty close to that Christmas Eve 2009 because of all the people on the roads and major interstates closed in Oklahoma and thousands stranded.

Abandoned
(E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / February 2, 2011)
Abandoned vehicles litter northbound Lake Shore Drive on Wednesday morning.