snowpocalipse

last night's ginormous storm hit pretty hard. just walking from our office to the car was a battle with strong wind gusts, and icy snow pallets attacking our faces.
this is a video that ben took outside our building. from home we were unable to see across the street, even the museum was invisible.

once again we felt lucky for not living on the north side anymore, as traffic on lakeshore drive was down to 4 miles per hour in the afternoon. the poor sobs that were still on the road when the storm peaked, got completely stuck and had to wait hours to be rescued. luckily all of our friends made it home before the storm.

[picture from chicago tribune]




this morning the storm was going on and off for a few hours, and finally died down and the sun came out! we put our winter gear on and went out to take some pictures. the roads are empty, most of them still covered in many inches of snow, and people walking in the middle of the road (yes, even the freeway!). it felt a little like Yom Kippur, only i should be wearing skis :)

the lake seems frozen and a bunch of people tried walking on it. we decided not to..