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Yall be safe up there.
My Fellow Midwesterners, Massive Blizzard!!!?? vol. My School's First Full Closure since 1979!!!
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Yall be safe up there.
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Just spent 3 hours shoveling
Would have been longer if random neighbor didnt come by with an EPIC snowblower.
His joint had some mini monster truck tires, cut clean thru like 20 inches of snow
. Dude was strollin thru the hood doin work
His joint had some mini monster truck tires, cut clean thru like 20 inches of snow
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Just spent 3 hours shoveling
Would have been longer if random neighbor didnt come by with an EPIC snowblower.
His joint had some mini monster truck tires, cut clean thru like 20 inches of snow
. Dude was strollin thru the hood doin work
His joint had some mini monster truck tires, cut clean thru like 20 inches of snow
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walked to the store last night and literally fell into a 4 foot snow drift. and this has an inch of ice under it.
university of missouri is out tomorrow as well. missouri state better do the same.
either way im saying *@@$ it. im taking a personal day tomorrow no matter what. -15 degree wind chill is not whats up.
university of missouri is out tomorrow as well. missouri state better do the same.
either way im saying *@@$ it. im taking a personal day tomorrow no matter what. -15 degree wind chill is not whats up.
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walked to the store last night and literally fell into a 4 foot snow drift. and this has an inch of ice under it.
university of missouri is out tomorrow as well. missouri state better do the same.
either way im saying *@@$ it. im taking a personal day tomorrow no matter what. -15 degree wind chill is not whats up.
university of missouri is out tomorrow as well. missouri state better do the same.
either way im saying *@@$ it. im taking a personal day tomorrow no matter what. -15 degree wind chill is not whats up.
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As if the snow wasnt enough, we're gonna get up to 40 degrees below zero with the wind chill...eeeeek
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As if the snow wasnt enough, we're gonna get up to 40 degrees below zero with the wind chill...eeeeek
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This looks intriguing to a dude in Houston.
Sometimes I wish I had snow like this for a day.
Then, I experience 20 degree weather that feels 10 and say %$% that.
xx legod xx
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This looks intriguing to a dude in Houston.
Sometimes I wish I had snow like this for a day.
Then, I experience 20 degree weather that feels 10 and say %$% that.
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my pics from my iphone, was gonna use the camera but it was dead
cart at walmart
back yard
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my pics from my iphone, was gonna use the camera but it was dead
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It's outta control in the Chi... I seen on the ch7 news talking about people near the lake front got blown into the lake. Why they were out there along the lake front is a different story...Originally Posted by IgnantBliss
LAKE SHORE DRIVE IN CHICAGO...MOM PUT THIS PIC ON HER FB...CRAZY! LITERALLY LOOK LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE MOVIE 2012. STAY SAFE CHICAGO!
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It's outta control in the Chi... I seen on the ch7 news talking about people near the lake front got blown into the lake. Why they were out there along the lake front is a different story...Originally Posted by IgnantBliss
LAKE SHORE DRIVE IN CHICAGO...MOM PUT THIS PIC ON HER FB...CRAZY! LITERALLY LOOK LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE MOVIE 2012. STAY SAFE CHICAGO!
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been shovelin snow for the past 4 hours
time to sit my !$+ down n chill
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Yeah I heard it's still 200 cars stuck on Lake Shore Dr....crazy.
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Yeah I heard it's still 200 cars stuck on Lake Shore Dr....crazy.
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been shovelin snow for the past 4 hours
time to sit my !$+ down n chill
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I walked out along the lake today. They're still towing cars off LSD and there are HUGE snow piles.
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I walked out along the lake today. They're still towing cars off LSD and there are HUGE snow piles.
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Saw this on yahoo, pretty crazy/scary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...r_stranded_on_lake_shore
CHICAGO – Lindsey Wilson was on Lake Shore Drive, but she couldn't tell where. It was dark, and the snow swirling around the stranded bus made it impossible to see anything but the closest cars.
There was talk among her fellow commuters of 25-foot waves washing up from Lake Michigan and about when the bus might get going, but nobody knew anything — not the driver, not the emergency operators passengers were calling, and not the shivering motorists climbing aboard to keep warm after firefighters pulled them from their cars.
When a group of passengers decided enough was enough and started to walk, she joined them.
"I got 100 feet, everything was an orange hue, there was snow in my face, I couldn't see anything, I turned around and couldn't see the bus and I thought I was going to die," she said Wednesday morning.
Wilson, 26, was among hundreds of people in at least 1,500 vehicles who found themselves trapped on Chicago's most famous stretch of road for as long as 12 hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning during one of the worst snow storms in the city's history. The situation was among the worst impacts from the winter storm that carved a frigid path along a 2,000-mile stretch across the eastern U.S.
In the morning light, the roadway looked like rush hour had been stopped in time. Three lanes of cars cluttered the road with snow reaching as high as the windshields. Some cars were almost completely buried. Bulldozers worked to clear the snow from around the cars, then tow trucks plucked them out of snow drifts one by one.
On a stranded public transit bus, a two-way radio echoed eerily through the open passenger doors. Some abandoned cars still had yellow hazard lights blinking through the snow — without a human in sight to see them.
The stranded vehicles were the worst breakdown in Chicago's handling of the storm.
Some motorists came away angry, frustrated and puzzled at why the city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier, or why officials didn't anticipate that a bus accident could clog it up like a cork in a bottle.
"In 31 years with the city, I haven't experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive," said Raymond Orozco, Mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff. Later, Orozco told reporters that it was his own call not to shut the road as soon as snow began, and stood by the decision. Late Wednesday, it wasn't known when the road would reopen, and some 200 cars were still stuck.
City officials estimated as many as 900 cars were caught in the jam; an AP photographer at the scene counted at least 1,500.
Orozco said more than 130 firefighters, some on snowmobiles, and 100 police officers were sent to the road. As they sat and waited, the stranded motorists gratefully gobbled down granola bars and drank coffee and Gatorade, brought to them by Good Samaritans who climbed fences and railings to deliver them.
For hour after hour, the passengers in Wilson's bus waited. As lightning crackled, and wind gusts of up to 70 mph whipped up the snow and buried vehicles before their eyes, they huddled in their cars and on buses.
With word spreading that one or more buses had jackknifed ahead of them and sealed the drive, they tried to make a break for it. Fearing that they would be swallowed by the snowdrifts that by morning had climbed to the tops of vehicles, some turned around.
"I thought if I fall over, what would happen if I got buried under a pile of snow?" said Wilson, who made it back to her bus as much by feel as sight.
With so little information out there, motorists said the mood slipped from jovial to apprehensive and even to panic.
"The bus driver kept yelling,' We are all gonna die,'" said Ron Nelson, a 51-year-old salesman who was on a bus bound for a northern neighborhood where he lives. It wasn't clear if the driver was joking and "nobody thought it was funny," Nelson said at a hospital, where he was taken.
In cars, after watching their gas gauges falling, drivers tried desperately to keep their vehicles idling long enough with heaters on full blast to warm them up before turning off the ignition to keep from running out of gas.
People called family and friends on cell phones, as much to get information and ask to be rescued as relay what was going on — mostly because nobody knew.
Carolyn Pirotte, a 28-year-old nurse, just waited in her car and talked to her husband on the cell phone. He caught a ride as far as he could get, then started walking. He peered into windows until he spotted her just before midnight, six hours after her ordeal began.
He climbed in and waited with her for three hours until firefighters took them to a warming center at a nearby hospital.
As for Wilson, she wonders why she hopped on that bus just before it rolled onto Lake Shore Drive.
"I should have been smart enough not to take that route," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...r_stranded_on_lake_shore
CHICAGO – Lindsey Wilson was on Lake Shore Drive, but she couldn't tell where. It was dark, and the snow swirling around the stranded bus made it impossible to see anything but the closest cars.
There was talk among her fellow commuters of 25-foot waves washing up from Lake Michigan and about when the bus might get going, but nobody knew anything — not the driver, not the emergency operators passengers were calling, and not the shivering motorists climbing aboard to keep warm after firefighters pulled them from their cars.
When a group of passengers decided enough was enough and started to walk, she joined them.
"I got 100 feet, everything was an orange hue, there was snow in my face, I couldn't see anything, I turned around and couldn't see the bus and I thought I was going to die," she said Wednesday morning.
Wilson, 26, was among hundreds of people in at least 1,500 vehicles who found themselves trapped on Chicago's most famous stretch of road for as long as 12 hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning during one of the worst snow storms in the city's history. The situation was among the worst impacts from the winter storm that carved a frigid path along a 2,000-mile stretch across the eastern U.S.
In the morning light, the roadway looked like rush hour had been stopped in time. Three lanes of cars cluttered the road with snow reaching as high as the windshields. Some cars were almost completely buried. Bulldozers worked to clear the snow from around the cars, then tow trucks plucked them out of snow drifts one by one.
On a stranded public transit bus, a two-way radio echoed eerily through the open passenger doors. Some abandoned cars still had yellow hazard lights blinking through the snow — without a human in sight to see them.
The stranded vehicles were the worst breakdown in Chicago's handling of the storm.
Some motorists came away angry, frustrated and puzzled at why the city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier, or why officials didn't anticipate that a bus accident could clog it up like a cork in a bottle.
"In 31 years with the city, I haven't experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive," said Raymond Orozco, Mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff. Later, Orozco told reporters that it was his own call not to shut the road as soon as snow began, and stood by the decision. Late Wednesday, it wasn't known when the road would reopen, and some 200 cars were still stuck.
City officials estimated as many as 900 cars were caught in the jam; an AP photographer at the scene counted at least 1,500.
Orozco said more than 130 firefighters, some on snowmobiles, and 100 police officers were sent to the road. As they sat and waited, the stranded motorists gratefully gobbled down granola bars and drank coffee and Gatorade, brought to them by Good Samaritans who climbed fences and railings to deliver them.
For hour after hour, the passengers in Wilson's bus waited. As lightning crackled, and wind gusts of up to 70 mph whipped up the snow and buried vehicles before their eyes, they huddled in their cars and on buses.
With word spreading that one or more buses had jackknifed ahead of them and sealed the drive, they tried to make a break for it. Fearing that they would be swallowed by the snowdrifts that by morning had climbed to the tops of vehicles, some turned around.
"I thought if I fall over, what would happen if I got buried under a pile of snow?" said Wilson, who made it back to her bus as much by feel as sight.
With so little information out there, motorists said the mood slipped from jovial to apprehensive and even to panic.
"The bus driver kept yelling,' We are all gonna die,'" said Ron Nelson, a 51-year-old salesman who was on a bus bound for a northern neighborhood where he lives. It wasn't clear if the driver was joking and "nobody thought it was funny," Nelson said at a hospital, where he was taken.
In cars, after watching their gas gauges falling, drivers tried desperately to keep their vehicles idling long enough with heaters on full blast to warm them up before turning off the ignition to keep from running out of gas.
People called family and friends on cell phones, as much to get information and ask to be rescued as relay what was going on — mostly because nobody knew.
Carolyn Pirotte, a 28-year-old nurse, just waited in her car and talked to her husband on the cell phone. He caught a ride as far as he could get, then started walking. He peered into windows until he spotted her just before midnight, six hours after her ordeal began.
He climbed in and waited with her for three hours until firefighters took them to a warming center at a nearby hospital.
As for Wilson, she wonders why she hopped on that bus just before it rolled onto Lake Shore Drive.
"I should have been smart enough not to take that route," she said.
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Saw this on yahoo, pretty crazy/scary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...r_stranded_on_lake_shore
CHICAGO – Lindsey Wilson was on Lake Shore Drive, but she couldn't tell where. It was dark, and the snow swirling around the stranded bus made it impossible to see anything but the closest cars.
There was talk among her fellow commuters of 25-foot waves washing up from Lake Michigan and about when the bus might get going, but nobody knew anything — not the driver, not the emergency operators passengers were calling, and not the shivering motorists climbing aboard to keep warm after firefighters pulled them from their cars.
When a group of passengers decided enough was enough and started to walk, she joined them.
"I got 100 feet, everything was an orange hue, there was snow in my face, I couldn't see anything, I turned around and couldn't see the bus and I thought I was going to die," she said Wednesday morning.
Wilson, 26, was among hundreds of people in at least 1,500 vehicles who found themselves trapped on Chicago's most famous stretch of road for as long as 12 hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning during one of the worst snow storms in the city's history. The situation was among the worst impacts from the winter storm that carved a frigid path along a 2,000-mile stretch across the eastern U.S.
In the morning light, the roadway looked like rush hour had been stopped in time. Three lanes of cars cluttered the road with snow reaching as high as the windshields. Some cars were almost completely buried. Bulldozers worked to clear the snow from around the cars, then tow trucks plucked them out of snow drifts one by one.
On a stranded public transit bus, a two-way radio echoed eerily through the open passenger doors. Some abandoned cars still had yellow hazard lights blinking through the snow — without a human in sight to see them.
The stranded vehicles were the worst breakdown in Chicago's handling of the storm.
Some motorists came away angry, frustrated and puzzled at why the city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier, or why officials didn't anticipate that a bus accident could clog it up like a cork in a bottle.
"In 31 years with the city, I haven't experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive," said Raymond Orozco, Mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff. Later, Orozco told reporters that it was his own call not to shut the road as soon as snow began, and stood by the decision. Late Wednesday, it wasn't known when the road would reopen, and some 200 cars were still stuck.
City officials estimated as many as 900 cars were caught in the jam; an AP photographer at the scene counted at least 1,500.
Orozco said more than 130 firefighters, some on snowmobiles, and 100 police officers were sent to the road. As they sat and waited, the stranded motorists gratefully gobbled down granola bars and drank coffee and Gatorade, brought to them by Good Samaritans who climbed fences and railings to deliver them.
For hour after hour, the passengers in Wilson's bus waited. As lightning crackled, and wind gusts of up to 70 mph whipped up the snow and buried vehicles before their eyes, they huddled in their cars and on buses.
With word spreading that one or more buses had jackknifed ahead of them and sealed the drive, they tried to make a break for it. Fearing that they would be swallowed by the snowdrifts that by morning had climbed to the tops of vehicles, some turned around.
"I thought if I fall over, what would happen if I got buried under a pile of snow?" said Wilson, who made it back to her bus as much by feel as sight.
With so little information out there, motorists said the mood slipped from jovial to apprehensive and even to panic.
"The bus driver kept yelling,' We are all gonna die,'" said Ron Nelson, a 51-year-old salesman who was on a bus bound for a northern neighborhood where he lives. It wasn't clear if the driver was joking and "nobody thought it was funny," Nelson said at a hospital, where he was taken.
In cars, after watching their gas gauges falling, drivers tried desperately to keep their vehicles idling long enough with heaters on full blast to warm them up before turning off the ignition to keep from running out of gas.
People called family and friends on cell phones, as much to get information and ask to be rescued as relay what was going on — mostly because nobody knew.
Carolyn Pirotte, a 28-year-old nurse, just waited in her car and talked to her husband on the cell phone. He caught a ride as far as he could get, then started walking. He peered into windows until he spotted her just before midnight, six hours after her ordeal began.
He climbed in and waited with her for three hours until firefighters took them to a warming center at a nearby hospital.
As for Wilson, she wonders why she hopped on that bus just before it rolled onto Lake Shore Drive.
"I should have been smart enough not to take that route," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...r_stranded_on_lake_shore
CHICAGO – Lindsey Wilson was on Lake Shore Drive, but she couldn't tell where. It was dark, and the snow swirling around the stranded bus made it impossible to see anything but the closest cars.
There was talk among her fellow commuters of 25-foot waves washing up from Lake Michigan and about when the bus might get going, but nobody knew anything — not the driver, not the emergency operators passengers were calling, and not the shivering motorists climbing aboard to keep warm after firefighters pulled them from their cars.
When a group of passengers decided enough was enough and started to walk, she joined them.
"I got 100 feet, everything was an orange hue, there was snow in my face, I couldn't see anything, I turned around and couldn't see the bus and I thought I was going to die," she said Wednesday morning.
Wilson, 26, was among hundreds of people in at least 1,500 vehicles who found themselves trapped on Chicago's most famous stretch of road for as long as 12 hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning during one of the worst snow storms in the city's history. The situation was among the worst impacts from the winter storm that carved a frigid path along a 2,000-mile stretch across the eastern U.S.
In the morning light, the roadway looked like rush hour had been stopped in time. Three lanes of cars cluttered the road with snow reaching as high as the windshields. Some cars were almost completely buried. Bulldozers worked to clear the snow from around the cars, then tow trucks plucked them out of snow drifts one by one.
On a stranded public transit bus, a two-way radio echoed eerily through the open passenger doors. Some abandoned cars still had yellow hazard lights blinking through the snow — without a human in sight to see them.
The stranded vehicles were the worst breakdown in Chicago's handling of the storm.
Some motorists came away angry, frustrated and puzzled at why the city didn't close the crucial thoroughfare earlier, or why officials didn't anticipate that a bus accident could clog it up like a cork in a bottle.
"In 31 years with the city, I haven't experienced anything like we did at Lake Shore Drive," said Raymond Orozco, Mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff. Later, Orozco told reporters that it was his own call not to shut the road as soon as snow began, and stood by the decision. Late Wednesday, it wasn't known when the road would reopen, and some 200 cars were still stuck.
City officials estimated as many as 900 cars were caught in the jam; an AP photographer at the scene counted at least 1,500.
Orozco said more than 130 firefighters, some on snowmobiles, and 100 police officers were sent to the road. As they sat and waited, the stranded motorists gratefully gobbled down granola bars and drank coffee and Gatorade, brought to them by Good Samaritans who climbed fences and railings to deliver them.
For hour after hour, the passengers in Wilson's bus waited. As lightning crackled, and wind gusts of up to 70 mph whipped up the snow and buried vehicles before their eyes, they huddled in their cars and on buses.
With word spreading that one or more buses had jackknifed ahead of them and sealed the drive, they tried to make a break for it. Fearing that they would be swallowed by the snowdrifts that by morning had climbed to the tops of vehicles, some turned around.
"I thought if I fall over, what would happen if I got buried under a pile of snow?" said Wilson, who made it back to her bus as much by feel as sight.
With so little information out there, motorists said the mood slipped from jovial to apprehensive and even to panic.
"The bus driver kept yelling,' We are all gonna die,'" said Ron Nelson, a 51-year-old salesman who was on a bus bound for a northern neighborhood where he lives. It wasn't clear if the driver was joking and "nobody thought it was funny," Nelson said at a hospital, where he was taken.
In cars, after watching their gas gauges falling, drivers tried desperately to keep their vehicles idling long enough with heaters on full blast to warm them up before turning off the ignition to keep from running out of gas.
People called family and friends on cell phones, as much to get information and ask to be rescued as relay what was going on — mostly because nobody knew.
Carolyn Pirotte, a 28-year-old nurse, just waited in her car and talked to her husband on the cell phone. He caught a ride as far as he could get, then started walking. He peered into windows until he spotted her just before midnight, six hours after her ordeal began.
He climbed in and waited with her for three hours until firefighters took them to a warming center at a nearby hospital.
As for Wilson, she wonders why she hopped on that bus just before it rolled onto Lake Shore Drive.
"I should have been smart enough not to take that route," she said.
