OK, this was some crazy ass snow...even for Chicago.

Yesterday I was somewhat belittling those that were running around like chicken-little's thinking the sky was falling, stocking up on food and generally panicking. My bad.

We got a shit storm!!! Yeah, it was crazy. Third worst blizzard in Chicago history. Here are just some of the pictures:

Over by my car, it was about 20" of snow. Actually on my car though, because of the wind I think, there was only about 5 1/2". The wind was sustained at about 35 with gusts up to 70. Absolutely freaking crazy. If you were in any of the multiple wind tunnels around the city, you weren't there for long. Your ass was gonna get blown over in a hurry.

In front of my house this morning. Doesn't look impressive because there isn't much reference except for the car. The snow plows STILL haven't made it down our street yet.

So this is on Lake Shore Drive. Yes THE Lake Shore Drive. In the early stages of the storm, during rush hour, a large bus (with the accordion section) jacknifed and completely blocked traffic. In a span of about 20 minutes, there were two more accidents within 6 blocks of each other. That led to these cars still being stuck on LSD today!! Yep, these picks were from noon today.

Look at this! Basically 300 plus cars and at least two buses. All of the people were running out of gas so they abandon their cars and LSD was shut down. Most of the people were taken away by the police, firemen and some warming buses that were brought into the area. Just crazy.

Tonight and tomorrow is supposed to be absolutely awful cold: negative 20's windchill. So guess what's going to happen to all of the snow? Yep, turning to ice. Yikes.

Today I dug out my car and LL's. Our parking lots aren't plowed (yes, we're in separate lots) and the street attached to the lots aren't plowed and the street attached to that street isn't plowed. But the streets attached to THAT street ARE plowed. Three degrees of separation from being able to drive our car. Ha!