Snow Storm Coming

[ALiberalModerate]

Here in the KC area, we were at the epicenter of the snowstorm and had a blizzard all day yesterday. My son and I spent 2 hours today shoveling out our little driveway and walk. This is one of the reasons housing in the Midwest tends to be less expensive than other parts of the country. Our dogs love the snow though.

I took this picture during the worst of the whiteout. I let our golden retriever run around the neighborhood before it got too bad.

 

[RF667799]

There were many stories like your father's, as all transportation and emergency services came to a dead stop. Many workers were trapped in the Loop, and spent the nights in downtown hotels that opened up every available space for them, couches, padded chairs, cots in hallways, whatever. People were even trapped on busses, with now where to go!

There were quite a few deaths, including several that were stranded on Lake Shore Drive, the visual subject of the picture.

If you want an old Chicago Lake Shore Drive memory, I'll leave you with the tune below. It was huge in Chi-town, but I don't think it charted nationally. Back then there were regional hits & music scenes that never made it out. Heartsfield's "Music Eyes", was another huge local hit.

(The beauty of Chicago is it being a large dense cosmopolitan urban environment, plunked smack down in the middle of the rural Midwest. It enjoys the cultural cross-pollination of both disparate cultures. These two tunes below do a nice job of displaying this, I think)

Lake Shore Drive was big downstate because of KSHE 95 in St Louis. I don't think I knew too many in those days who didn't have a copy of that Aliota Haynes and Jeremiah tape on 8 track or cassette in their car. I have the LP to this day.

 

[EnigmaO01]

Less than in Indiana. Michigan is one of the few states where your vote for president actually counts.

Sure didn't seem that way when I was in Michigan last October. The rural areas were congested with Trump signs. I saw very very few Harris signs. Trump won Michigan didn't he?

I have lived in Michigan and graduated from a college in Michigan btw, and not originally from Indiana. Seriously considering selling and moving once the parents I am caring for pass. Mother is in hospice care now, and my dad has had three seizures. Both are pushing 90. Looking at Maine.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Time to panic!

I thought glowbull warming had ended all snow?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Lows in the 30's ( but not freezing) in Orlando this week..I cant handle this crap. space heaters and blankets to get thru the nights

You're colder than we are.

Lows in the mid-40's in So-Cal. We should hit 70 tomorrow.

 

[trixare4kids]

I will never forget it.
Hubby worked for a utility and was on call. I had two little kids at home. The roads were completely closed. We needed basic things to get by for a couple of days and since there was no school, the teenager that lived next door came over and I walked to the nearest mom and pop store to get some essentials. It was over a mile from the house. The snow was deep, the wind was blowing and there was a total whiteout. I got two bags of groceries to see us through. By the time I got back home, I thought my arms were going to fall off. That was rough.

I can feel for what you went through. The worry of getting home after your struggles in a snowstorm.

I remember back to a time when I was in "junior high", and what is now called middle school.

My mom gave me a note in the morning before I left for school to buy her two packs of cigarettes and pick up a couple of other things on the way home. My mom, like many moms from the sixties, didn't drive. She also suffered from chronic illness, rheumatoid arthritis, and we kids just did our part and pitched in to help. My mom had to write a note which would enable me to buy her cigarettes. It was pretty permissible for minors to buy their parents cigarettes with a note. Nobody judge as this was a different time in history. We didn't know the dangers of cigarettes back then.

Again, I digress. It was out of my way to go to the grocery store. I had to go in a different direction before venturing home. I remember vividly as to what happened. Out of the blue, and on the way home, it was getting dark, and there was a big blinding, unexpected, blowing snow in my path and it was building into inches on the ground fast. I remember the cold and the icy snow hitting my cheeks, the heavy wetness fell onto me. I was alone, young, and afraid. It was cold, and it was blowing, and hard to trudge through. I finally got home. Seemed like it took me hours. I remember the exhaustion, Vesper.

 

[anatta]

You're colder than we are.

Lows in the mid-40's in So-Cal. We should hit 70 tomorrow.

the storm started out in the Pacific and dove down to the middle of th country and took a path east. Aren't there a couple of such plunges forecast? I have my space heater for bed

 

[anatta]

I can feel for what you went through. The worry of getting home after your struggles in a snowstorm.

I remember back to a time when I was in "junior high", and what is now called middle school.

My mom gave me a note in the morning before I left for school to buy her two packs of cigarettes and pick up a couple of other things on the way home. My mom, like many moms from the sixties, didn't drive. She also suffered from chronic illness, rheumatoid arthritis, and we kids just did our part and pitched in to help. My mom had to write a note which would enable me to buy her cigarettes. It was pretty permissible for minors to buy their parents cigarettes with a note. Nobody judge as this was a different time in history. We didn't know the dangers of cigarettes back then.

Again, I digress. It was out of my way to go to the grocery store. I had to go in a different direction before venturing home. I remember vividly as to what happened. Out of the blue, and on the way home, it was getting dark, and there was a big blinding, unexpected, blowing snow in my path and it was building into inches on the ground fast. I remember the cold and the icy snow hitting my cheeks, the heavy wetness fell onto me. I was alone, young, and afraid. It was cold, and it was blowing, and hard to trudge through. I finally got home. Seemed like it took me hours. I remember the exhaustion, Vesper.

 

[trixare4kids]

So dark, but I love that kind of humor. Lol

 

[Parrish]

More flurries, rain, freezing temps and icy conditions. Mid 20's to low 30's for the next 4 days or so.

 

[anatta]

So dark, but I love that kind of humor. Lol

You couldn't smoke in a doctors office, but i cant think of anyplace else. When i smoked way back when, i definately did for cigs and beer

 

[Grogu]

I can see why the above tale with your neighbor keeps your family laughing.

Glad you enjoyed the story. My sisters and my father laugh about it to this day. It was so like my mother to crank open a window during a blizzard to chastise me for making money for doing something kind and neighborly that she asked me to do. A lesson learned that I never forgot.

I think about it these days when I go next door to the elderly couple’s house who are shut-ins and do their driveway and sidewalk with my snowblower. No money, just the satisfaction that, like Mrs. Newby 50 years ago, someone peeked out the door and saw me doing something nice and was thankful for it.

 

[Bighorn66]

Report:

Southern Indiana 05:30.
11 inches of snow
Subject’s driveway in perfect condition last night
Snow plow came though in the middle of the night
Subject had to get up early to go unf*ck the entrance to his driveway, unblock the mail box, and clear area around refuse and recycling toter which were all perfectly addressed by the concerned citizen once already.

 

[EnigmaO01]

Report:

Southern Indiana 05:30.
11 inches of snow
Subject’s driveway in perfect condition last night
Snow plow came though in the middle of the night
Subject had to get up early to go unf*ck the entrance to his driveway, unblock the mail box, and clear area around refuse and recycling toter which were all perfectly addressed by the concerned citizen once already.

 

[MaryP]

Let's not forget the great food that comes from the Midwest.

When I think 'midwest food,' I automatically think casseroles and potluck. What else is good? (I've never been there.)

 

[MaryP]

66/67 was my first year in SW suburbs.
No doubt you remember that mother of all blizzards.
77/78 and 78/79 bad winters came on the sunspot cycle ?

I remember them all!

 

[MaryP]

More flurries, rain, freezing temps and icy conditions. Mid 20's to low 30's for the next 4 days or so.

Ugh. I hate the icy mix. It is in the single digits and teens here for highs and I am perfectly alright with it. Plain old snow is fine with me (we haven't gotten a big snowfall, yet) but I'm ready.

 

[MaryP]

Report:

Southern Indiana 05:30.
11 inches of snow
Subject’s driveway in perfect condition last night
Snow plow came though in the middle of the night
Subject had to get up early to go unf*ck the entrance to his driveway, unblock the mail box, and clear area around refuse and recycling toter which were all perfectly addressed by the concerned citizen once already.

It's bad when the snowbanks eat the mailbox entirely.

 

[MaryP]

Glad you enjoyed the story. My sisters and my father laugh about it to this day. It was so like my mother to crank open a window during a blizzard to chastise me for making money for doing something kind and neighborly that she asked me to do. A lesson learned that I never forgot.

I think about it these days when I go next door to the elderly couple’s house who are shut-ins and do their driveway and sidewalk with my snowblower. No money, just the satisfaction that, like Mrs. Newby 50 years ago, someone peeked out the door and saw me doing something nice and was thankful for it.

I wish you were my neighbor!

 

[Linc]

I remember them all!

There was a snowdrift across the whole small town downstate.
When the wind blew too hard, we missed school. No E-learning then.

 

[Helix]

When I think 'midwest food,' I automatically think casseroles and potluck. What else is good? (I've never been there.)

Biscuits and gravy
Chicken and noodles
Fried tenderloins the size of a plate with a regular sized bun.

 

[L88]

When I think 'midwest food,' I automatically think casseroles and potluck. What else is good? (I've never been there.)

Head cheese

 

[Linc]

Glad you enjoyed the story. My sisters and my father laugh about it to this day. It was so like my mother to crank open a window during a blizzard to chastise me for making money for doing something kind and neighborly that she asked me to do. A lesson learned that I never forgot.

I think about it these days when I go next door to the elderly couple’s house who are shut-ins and do their driveway and sidewalk with my snowblower. No money, just the satisfaction that, like Mrs. Newby 50 years ago, someone peeked out the door and saw me doing something nice and was thankful for it.

We’ll be visiting the IA farm complex soon.
We used to call this wrestling weather, as you well know.
BTN starts a new season this weekend.
I miss the days we’d play hockey all winter on local ponds and creeks.

 

[multivita-man]

Officially about 8 or 9 inches of snow in Arlington, depending on where you are in the county. Alexandria got about 8-10 inches. Seems like most places in Northern Virginia topped out at around 10 inches. A pretty solid snowfall that comes around maybe once every other year. We usually get a 6-incher at least once a year (at least since I've lived here).

 

[Bighorn66]

When I think 'midwest food,' I automatically think casseroles and potluck. What else is good? (I've never been there.)

I hate casseroles, except for baked mostaccioli. Which I never found in Italy by the way.

Chicago style hotdogs—no ketchup unless you’re a communist.
Barbecue—come on now! Kansas City Style or St. Louis Style.
Toasted Ravioli
Pig cooked in the ground
Tostones
Picadillo
Gooey butter cake
Frozen custard
Sweet Corn
Tomatoes—taste better
Italian beef
Pork tenderloin
Walleye
St. Louis style pizza
Provell cheese
Chicago Pizza
Chicken Vesuvio
Garbanzo beans and rice
St. Louis Strip Steak
Plus a lot of non-regional food