Major Storm in the Midwest…just wanted everyone to check in if you can.
Round Chicago it wasn’t that bad.
Came down really heavy during the a.m. rush closing schools and making the commute a hassle for a lot of folks, but it stopped around noon as predicted, and with the temps around freezing the salt and plows are able to do their job. Streets are very driveable - tho extremely sloppy. Could be a hassle later tonight when the temps drop and things ice up.
Thanks for asking.
Happy to report that the Twin Cities didn’t get anything. For once, it was someone else’s turn.
It’s twenty six degrees Farenheit out, and the snow is drifted knee deep on the six foot four Mr. Clawbane. We haven’t had a power outage yet, but the mail delivery appears to be delayed. (I can understand that, they aren’t used to real snow here.) I hope everyone else has fared as well?
Hell, my buddy who commutes into the city from NW Indiana said they got just a dusting!
Apparently the heavy stuff could be quite localized.
Hey, you guys were supportive during hurricane season. I’m just returning the favor (and gloating a bit because it’s going to be in the 80s this weekend. 
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It’s supposed to get colder next week, highs only in the upper 60s. Maybe your storm is heading our way?
Northwest suburban Chicago … we got a foot or more. Plow Dude just came by and dug us out. If I were still seven years old, an exhausting game of King of the Hill would ensue.
Seems to have missed Ohio totally, although we’ve had ferocious wind all day long, and the temperature has dropped nearly 25 degrees since this morning.
We’re supposed to get some snow tonight, but nothing devastating.
However, the winds have caused two community Christmas trees in the area to fall over :D.
E.
Hopefully it will keep the bats in their cave too. 
How’s the baby, btw?
Dallas got hit yesterday. Not too bad, but I had to remember how to scrape ice off of my car!
The worst part was the endless local news coverage.
Couple hours south of us (Chicago) got hit pretty hard, be we only got a bit more than a dusting here.
St Louis area here…I live in Collinsville IL…work in Florissant MO…go figure BOTH areas have 90% power loss :dubious: Same as this summers power outage… last i heard 500,000 without power and low tonight in the low teens…
I have no power but am using a propane coleman lantern for both heat and light, working well so far, the abobe is at a balmy 59 degrees F…Gotta love Panera/St louis bread company for the Hot coffee and free wireless…
thanks for asking IvyLass,
ThisSpaceForRent
Tulsa, OK had our first ever “Blizzard Warning”, 5 semis jackknifed on the interchange downtown and plenty of other cars slid off the road. This is the most snow I’ve ever seen!
This is my third 4-day weekend in a row (last week was Thanksgiving and the week before I was sick).
Far west Chicago suburbs here. I was out driving at 4 am to determine if there would be school or not. For future reference, it’s not usually the superintendent that makes that call - it’s the Bus Guy after doing the round of local roads and talking with highway department/public works people.
At 4, I’d have said it was a go, by 5 it was coming down heavy enough and had a base of icy sleet that I called it.
By noon, it had all stopped, now there’s some icing on the streets, but it’s mostly old news by now.
Best story of the day: I was in line at Ace Hardware, and the cashier was asking the kid in front of me if he was enjoying his day off. He said yeah, and his mom was grateful that she didn’t have to deal with getting them to and from school…
Mom looks at me and grins, I said “you’re welcome”. I briefly explain, mom then says how neat it must be to do that. I comment yeah it’s a neat job, except at 3:30 when the alarm goes off.
Kid says, “can we have Monday too?”
Middle of MO here. Enjoyed an extremely rare snow day from college today. My work was closed. Roomie and I spent our day watching movies. We went out to clean the snow off our cars (I think we got close to a foot or so) and it took forever. Watched one Suburban repeatedly bump another from behind because it was stuck. The stuck one ended up in someone’s yard and was abandoned. Still there. At one point in the day, there were six cars stuck on the street for prolonged periods of time. If anyone watched any TV today they said to stay off the roads - 70 and 63 were both closed and they were trying to plow the residential areas. Our street hasn’t been done yet. We’re okay though. We’ve got power just wish we had better food left and more beer! Am curious to whether my work will be open tomorrow because I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it! I got most of the snow off the car, but it’s up to the top of my tires all the way around. We don’t have a shovel.
All my relatives including my parents in good ol Florissant (where I’m from) and surrounding areas are out of power - the grandparents were collected and taken to hotels. My parents were out of power for five days or so this summer - hopefully they will all get it back soon!
I wouldn’t call what we got in NW Indiana a “dusting” - more like an icy frosting. Roads were slick, fender benders, but I haven’t heard of any major injuries/deaths around here.
I made it into the Chicago Loop for work, since I knew most all of my coworkers who live to the west wouldn’t make it in. The company closed at 2:30 - hasn’t closed early for weather since 1996! - to give folks lots of time to get home.
About 50 miles west of here, though, there’s a 50-60 mile traffic jam on I-80. Folks stranded over 12 hours, running out of gas, stuck on the road… emergency personnel are moving in with snowmobiles to help folks out. They’re trying to clear jackknifed semis and just plain stuck vehicles out of the way, but it’s going to be slow going.
Just for the sake of mentioning it…
I went to basic training and AIT in Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Once, during basic clerk school, an inch of snow fell.
One inch.
The entire base shut down. I shit you not, everything closed.
This confounded us trainees since most of our company was made up of Minnesotans, Cheeseheads, and guys from upstate New York.
One inch of snow can shut down the US Army?
In Missouri it can.
Still, I hope you folks are all doing well.
[sub]wimps[/sub]
Also in the St. Louis area (Fenton) – but still have power, and really only got ~4-5" of snow on top of the ice. My parents, in Des Peres, have no power, but my brother, in Warson Woods, does.
Watching people slide about my residential street this morning like they were bumper cars kept me from trying to go to work, and by the time it all melted enough to drive, it wasn’t worth the effort. Oddly, since the condo assoc pays for the sidewalks and driveways to be cleaned, for most of the day I had a clean and salted driveway… leading to an impassable street. :dubious:
Chicago NW suburbs here. The snow itself wasn’t so bad. The problems were with the Annual Forgetting How to Drive in Snow Day and the total and complete lack of plowing. On the way to work, I wouldn’t have been surprised if no plowing had been done at all, the roads were so bad. Luckily, I left early enough that I was only 5 minutes late to work.
On the way home however, even though the snowfall had stopped 2 and a half hours earlier, the road (and it is a major highway even!) still seemed like it hadn’t been plowed. An hour after I got off work, I was only about 2 miles away (both from the snow-covered road, and the shuttle bus that veered slightly too far right, got stuck in the snowdrift on the road side, and blocked the entire right lane). So I pulled out my cell phone (not dangerous–traffic was stopped) and called my sister, who was just leaving work, and arranged to meet her at Panera Bread for dinner. Soup and sandwiches and yummy hot cocoa, plus free samples of their new Crispani pizza-bread thingie!
Shout-out of appreciation to Wheeling, IL, because right at the “Welcome to Wheeling” sign, the road went from unplowed-but-mashed-down-by-countless-tires to totally and completely cleared of snow. Good for them!