Hoping every one is staying safe, warm and dry in this storm.

We should be able to do all of the above, providing we stay indoors

Firewood was brought in, larder stocked.
Got close to a foot of snow yesterday, not telling what is in store for today, since temperatures will be hovering around 32°.

 
We made it through, but it looks like we were on the outskirts of the storm.

I hope everyone is inside and warm!

 
An inch of sleet and 14 degrees, which is bitterly cold for us here.

Now they are talking snow tomorrow night. The city is virtually shut down from the ice, roads are impassible. Now they have started rolling blackouts to preserve power. Supposed to get down to ten tonight. The people who have come into town for the Super Bowl (if they have been able to get here-lots of flights cancelled and airports shut down part of yesterday) have been in for a very rude awakening.

 
So far we've got about 15 inches...

and, at this minute, pure white out conditions. DH went to his store this morning (our neighborhood was plowed out very early) but he's just hung the 'Closed' sign and is heading home:)

 
WICKED STORM . . .

Unbelievable in Chicago. Last night was crazy with severe thundersnow!

Up at 3 am to find a drift against my porch back door to the height of my shoulder. Out the front to drifts up to my waist. My N-S street is pretty secluded, but the wind nearly knocked me over. To get to the bus (a two+ block walk) would have been into 40-50 mph winds. Our office is/was open, but we were warned SAFETY FIRST (the office will be open on Saturday for those of you have to make the time up), so by 4 am I emailed my colleagues and said I would be working from home today.

It's still snowing . . . I think we're up to over 20" by now and the temperature is dropping quickly. By tomorrow morning we should be -15 to -10 degrees, with no let up on the wind, so wind chills ~-20 degrees.

Lake Shore Drive was shut down at 8 pm last night with over 1,000 cars stranded between Belmont and North Avenue until early this morning. Thankfully, only on fatality so far.

I've lived through two of the previous top five winter events and this was nothing like anything I've ever seen. I couldn't even stand on my back porch last night, and my back porch is on an enclosed courtyard. Unbelievable.

 
We are so, so lucky here. We were supposed to get the freezing rain/ice part of the storm..

but somehow it missed us and it's 50 and sunny today! How wild is that! I feel for all of you who are getting hit hard. I hope no one looses electricity.

 
We are even luckier. High winds last night and today... temps around freezing...

...this morning with the overnight lows in the low 20's.

It's sunny today, but very cold by our standards.

Michael

 
Who needs a shovel when you have cooking equipment???

It's 1 pm . . . snow has stopped and the sun is shining. I have no car, so I have no shovel . . . cleared out my back porch door with my handy-dandy cooking equipment . . . my baking sheet!!

 
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