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Pretty lousy description, but it's going to be pretty lousy weather. There's even a Winter Storm Warning in effect for tonight into tomorrow...but we're getting ahead of ourselves. It'll start sunny but those high, thin clouds will roll in throughout the day. Highs should reach the upper 20s. Tonight will start off mostly cloudy but the snow rolls in late. How much will fall, exactly, is anyone's guess (most everyone says somewhere between four and eight inches) so we'll stick with our "more than one, less than 10" motto.
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If you don't like the weather here, you can always move. This is the kind of weather that exposes the transplants and confirms the natives.
Enjoy!
I disagree. There are plenty of people I know who were born and bred here and get tired of the cold and the snow right about now. I am originally from the midwest, lived in the snowbelt area of the northeast for many years (where 20" of snow didn't close the schools) and I've gotta say that I am tired of this.
I love having four seasons, but by the end of Feb./beginning of March...I just don't feel like shoveling any more snow and I want to see some green grass and feel a warm breeze.
I love how Chicago people use any complaint about the weather to tell people to move, as if people everywhere don't complain about the weather. Complaining about the weather is human nature. Hell, people in Hawaii complain about the weather.
It's frickin cold. Just admit it, and try not to be so territorial and xenophobic.
People in Hawaii live on a volcano. I'll be the master of the obvious and say that is stupid.
Yes, it's cold I admit it and love it!
I moved here from Plattsburgh, NY, it's just as cold. I'm just as sick of the cold. Everyone gets sick of the weather wherever they are, at least once in a while.
Considering I moved here from New Orleans, I think I've managed the transition to 6 month winters fairly well.
That's what it is too...6 months of winter, 2 days of spring and then 6 months of hot and humid :)
just got my king cake and cajun cringle from Hadleys yesterday!
Oh, the "hot and humid" here is pleasant compared to the South! August in Chicago = May in Louisiana.
It's the same there with the neverending summer. I suppose there's a happy medium somewhere in Kentucky
JD84 - NICE! I got mine last week from Gambino's!
Yeah...I visited New Orleans several times in August over the years and it felt like there was no oxygen left in the air it was so hot. I lived in the southeast for a few years right before coming to Chicago...it took me several years to readjust back to the cold.
I've run three marathons now, including Chicago 2007, the one shut down by the heat. I had trained so many times and was so used to running in New Orleans in the summer (and year round) that the heat, while obviously slowing me, just reminded me of another Saturday morning running the Audubon Park Track by Tulane.
ugh imagine having to do that in a suit and tie. It's hell. I actually went to Boudreaux dressed in a suit in August, it still smells god awful. But with the trade for the food, well worth it.
Give me those airless Southern summers over Chicago winters any day (gee, do I have to give Daley back my key to the city because I don't like wearing dozens of layers?).
Damn, now I'm missing the Sazeracs (sp) and the gumbo and the catfish and au laits and the Abita picnics in Audubon Park and the fishing south of the city and the ... well, you get the point. Pretty cruel on a crappy Chicago day, Gilmer, to bring up New Orleans, pretty cruel indeed.
Hey! How do you think I feel? My favorite Mardi Gras krewe, Muses, rolled last night and they and several other parades are rolling down a slightly different parade route that goes right past my old Pre-Katrina apartment on Magazine St. Had a balcony and everything. AND all for $500/month.
Who were you sleeping with for that? We could always just break out Chef Paul Prudehomme's Louisiana Kitchen and fatten ourselves up. I hate to be the stereotype, but I've also got about 13.5lbs of hurricane mix for Saturday night too.
What's the satire krewe--Krewe D'Tat? Whatever it was, seen it a few times, including the first one after Katrina, and will never forget how brutally funny it was. Magazine St. is among my favorite streets in the world--and always get a good shave there whenever I'm in New Orleans.
OK. I'll stop now. Missing the city more than a little bit (never lived there, but visit pretty often). You people from New Orleans, you rival New Yorkers in your loyalties to your culture and hometown. Of course, it makes it harder for outsiders to break it, but still.
JD84 - luck of the draw, sir. Fantastic apartment, fantastic landlords. one br, cheap!
matilda - yeah, d'Etat is the one you're thinking of. Typically older, more conservative folk run the krewe so they're a bit more savage in their satire than Muses is, but great stuff all the way around.
I also recommend Krewe du Vieux, which is the first parade of the season and the only to run entirely through the Quarter. I was fortunate enough to march as a krewe member in the that one in 2006, the very first MG parade post-K. An absolutely amazing, surreal experience
Yeah, seen du Vieux, too. Fund, fun time. Been to enough MG that I don't need to attend anymore. Never attended Jazz&Heritage, but have bet on the horses with all fine gentlemen and ladies.