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It's been a while since we've seen snow fall like this around these parts. A winter storm advisory is in effect until 9 a.m. tomorrow. The National Weather Service is projecting 6-10 inches of snow to fall in that span, and it's gonna fall hard this afternoon and evening. The high temperature? You're looking at it right now at 28°F.
Meanwhile, for Marcus's benefit, the weather for the Super Bowl champion Saints victory parade is like autumn here. It'll be windy with a 20 percent chance of showers and a high of 52°F.
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Can we refrain from using the term "snowpocalypse"? This isn't meant to be a snotty remark toward Chicagoist or Chuck. It's catchy, I understand. But as someone who has lived in a lot of places, Chicagoans have it easy when it comes to getting a foot of snow. Washington, D.C. is basically shut down whenever they get more than three or four inches because they don't have the salt or equipment and they get plagued by black ice on their hilly roads. In Idaho Falls where my folks live, they don't use salt at all, just gravel. In the winter, they add red dowel-shaped markers to the posts on the side of the road so that you don't lose the road during a white out. This morning I had no problem getting to work. My street was a little slushy and Broadway was clear. C'mon, Chicagoans! We're tougher than snow. The roads get dumped with so much salt they turn white! In 12 years I've never missed work because of weather. Even during the blizzard of early '99, the arteries were clear within a day of us getting two feet in 24 hours. Shovel your sidewalk, get to work and stop complaining!
I'm with you on that. Using "snowpocalypse" should be reserved for times when the city is really going to get shut-the-hell-down, which I'll add I am hoping to experience at least once in my life. I've been here 8 years and seen it snow a lot in the 1 foot range, but I've never had the experience of a city-crippling storm. People hate when I wish for something like that, but I think I deserve it.
Agreed, though more because I hate lame-ass wordplay bullshit like that than anything else.
I lived many years in upstate New York...the snow belt...getting upwards of 20 inches was nothing...I shoveled it while pregnant....but I STILL hate this shit!
I hate it I hate it I hate it...I'm sick of it.
I also lived in Baltimore through several big ones...the snow is pretty, but when the winters drag on forever it just starts getting to me and I reserve my right to bitch!!!
And now I'm off to shovel.... :)
Eh, I'm not bothered by it, as it's designed to mock the tendency of news folk to start gnashing teeth and rending cloaks over anything weather-related ... although strangely enough, Chicago people are oddly calm during tornado weather, making do with a little weather crawl without interrupting the shows.
What does bug me is the overestimation Chicago has of its ability to deal with the weather. Sure, if the conditions hit just right so that the trucks can get out and get the roads clear before rush hour so that there's not a flake of snow left anywhere, then we're fine. But start a big storm just before rush hour, so that you have to drive through an inch or two still on the road, and see what happens. Or don't bother plowing side streets, as I'm sure happens in Idaho Falls, and let the wailing begin. I'd say Idaho Falls deals with it much better. Chicago people have been so coddled, they don't know how to drive in snow.
In that blizzard of '99 people were bitching that the city hadn't cleared their alleys. Because an election was coming up, Daley caved and cleared many of them. The trash trucks were affixed with plows. Paul Vallas had to close the schools for a day because many sidewalks were impassable and they were afraid students would walk in the street and get hit by cars. He got on T.V. and apologized.
Actually, temps could be down to the lower 40s/upper 30s with wind chill in the low 30s by the time the victory parade gets rolling around 5 p.m. tonight. I should have brought my gloves.
Just drink more bourbon and gut it out.
I didn't know you were IN New Orleans. Awesome, and congratulations!
(I'll give you two guesses where I'll be during the Final Four, assuming things go the way I hope.)