Snow Day

We can now say that we survived the 2011 Chicago blizzard. Although we now have mass amounts of snow everywhere - it did result in a snow day for both Luke and I. NO SCHOOL OR WORK! We spent our day off traipsing through the aftermath of the blizzard. At about 9:30 a.m. Luke was out the door exploring, while I was sipping coffee inside. I joined him shortly after and with a shovel in hand, we started helping the silly people who decided to try and drive down the street get their cars "unstuck."

Then we hiked over to Lakeshore Drive where hundreds of cars were left parked overnight, while tow truck drivers and loaders cleared the snow and towed all the stranded cars to city parking lots.

We didn't get mail for awhile... and there was nothing open on our street all day.

Luke helping a random guy get his car down the street.

It was windy... very windy.

Lots of cars were covered in snow - impossible to get out. Some were so covered with snow that you couldn't even see them.

Snow angel?

This is a tow truck that got stuck on Lakeshore Drive and had to be dug out with the rest of the cars. We watched them pull this one out using a loader to pull the tow truck, which pulled the car. It was amazing.

And these are the unfortunate remains of a brand new Escalade that we think tried to skirt the traffic on Lakeshore, veer through Lincoln Park and then crashed into a tree and stopped sliding mere feet from the lake. As far as we know, nobody was hurt... except the car.