barbara-in-va
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conditions today. Stay warm and dry!!
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Deb in MI--heard on the news the MI was to get 2 feet of snow and have complete white out
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melissa-dallas
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Super Bowl Weather
It's usually mid fifties here for a high this time of year. Now that we have all these visitors in for the Super Bowl we are supposed to get ice tomorrow, be in the low teens the next few nights with highs below freezing. Maybe flurries Friday. I do think it is supposed to be back in the sixties Sunday. Feel sorry for anyone who came down for the week thinking it was going to be warm though. It was in the mid-seventies Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Texas Weather!
It's usually mid fifties here for a high this time of year. Now that we have all these visitors in for the Super Bowl we are supposed to get ice tomorrow, be in the low teens the next few nights with highs below freezing. Maybe flurries Friday. I do think it is supposed to be back in the sixties Sunday. Feel sorry for anyone who came down for the week thinking it was going to be warm though. It was in the mid-seventies Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Texas Weather!
((Thank you for thinking of me))
yes - they say it is going to be pretty bad. We just flew in from Sarasota last night (visiting my parents) - glad it was yesterday because we probably wouldn't have made it home today. It's nice out right now but probably 'the calm before the storm'. I'm very thankful I work out of my house! (after nearly 20 years of commuting 3 hours a day)
Deb
yes - they say it is going to be pretty bad. We just flew in from Sarasota last night (visiting my parents) - glad it was yesterday because we probably wouldn't have made it home today. It's nice out right now but probably 'the calm before the storm'. I'm very thankful I work out of my house! (after nearly 20 years of commuting 3 hours a day)
Deb
rita-in-ill
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1967 was way big fun.. of course I was 16 at the time. Pathways were shoveled into the drifts ..
the sides were taller than me and I'm 5'8. Not so fun now that I'm 60.
the sides were taller than me and I'm 5'8. Not so fun now that I'm 60.
magnoliainchicago
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At 6:30 pm CST it's pretty WICKED out there . . .
This morning the sentiment was "storm, schtorm - what are they talking about?" as nothing much seemed to be happening. Extremely windy and cold at lunch, but only flurries . . . by 2:30 pm the snow started and by 4 pm (when I left the office) it looked downright dangerous from our 14th floor office overlooking Lake Michigan. Luckily most people had left work early, so the commute home was relatively easy considering the weather.
That said, the intensity is beyond what I have seen previously in Chicago. The wind is FIERCE (40-60 mph winds are expected tonight), the snow is drifting (I already have 3 feet against my lakeside porch door), wind chills are supposed to dip below -20 degrees.
And the we've only begun on the full throttle blast of the blizzard which is supposed to come after 9 pm - 3 am tonight!
Work issued an email this afternoon reminding staff that safety of each is paramount, but that the office will be open on Saturday to make up lost time. Read between the lines - don't come in if it is not safe, but be prepared to make up the time. Such is the life of an architect!
This morning the sentiment was "storm, schtorm - what are they talking about?" as nothing much seemed to be happening. Extremely windy and cold at lunch, but only flurries . . . by 2:30 pm the snow started and by 4 pm (when I left the office) it looked downright dangerous from our 14th floor office overlooking Lake Michigan. Luckily most people had left work early, so the commute home was relatively easy considering the weather.
That said, the intensity is beyond what I have seen previously in Chicago. The wind is FIERCE (40-60 mph winds are expected tonight), the snow is drifting (I already have 3 feet against my lakeside porch door), wind chills are supposed to dip below -20 degrees.
And the we've only begun on the full throttle blast of the blizzard which is supposed to come after 9 pm - 3 am tonight!
Work issued an email this afternoon reminding staff that safety of each is paramount, but that the office will be open on Saturday to make up lost time. Read between the lines - don't come in if it is not safe, but be prepared to make up the time. Such is the life of an architect!
magnoliainchicago
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Oh, and I forgot to add . . . .
I have an uncapped chimmney associated with the fireplace in my bedroom (originally the living room of a smaller unit.) I live in an historic building built in 1893, right after the Chicago Fire. It sounds like Zeus is having a GRAND time blowing across the top, like blowing across the top of a soda bottle. I actually had to turn up the volume on my TV.
And . . . also forgot to add that we're supposed to have significant thundersnow tonight as well as 35 foot waves on Lake Michigan.
The fun never ends!!
I have an uncapped chimmney associated with the fireplace in my bedroom (originally the living room of a smaller unit.) I live in an historic building built in 1893, right after the Chicago Fire. It sounds like Zeus is having a GRAND time blowing across the top, like blowing across the top of a soda bottle. I actually had to turn up the volume on my TV.
And . . . also forgot to add that we're supposed to have significant thundersnow tonight as well as 35 foot waves on Lake Michigan.
The fun never ends!!
florisandy
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Oh dear! Hunker down, be safe, and stay warm Magnolia! Wishing you all the best and please check
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