Thursday, February 3, 2011

Snow day in Chicago!

Yesterday was the first snow day for Chicago public schools since 1999! That's right, we'd gone 11 winters without a snow day, but Tuesday's blizzard took everyone out on Wednesday. And I've got to say, it was pretty fun :)

Tuesday night Alex and I ventured out into the storm twice with Leonidas - our strategy was that he went ahead of me and carved a path and then dug out around some trees so the little guy to take care of business. Poor little thing got so much snow whipped in his face with the wind, he looked almost completely white from the front. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a picture because, well, we were out in a blizzard.

Wednesday, the sun came out so the shovels came out! Here is Alex with our neighbor digging a path from the front door to our cars.


What you can't see here is that the sidewalks are completely buried everywhere else, and the snow is waist high in places. As in, we may not see a sidewalk until the spring. But all in all, the blizzard was great - now today feels sort of like a Monday but it's already Thursday!

4 comments:

Katie said...

Haha, what's the point when it looks like your entire parking lot is waist deep in snow! But I bet they've cleared that out by now :)

jennie said...

wow no snow day for 11 years!! glad chicago finally got one! were the streets all clear by the next day? or does everyone just drive in it?

maggie said...

that is insane! the only remotely good thing about snow is the day-off you get from it :) hope you are dug out by now!

Christina Casares said...

Glad you were able to dig out okay...just think: Last year we got 4 times that much snow and VA is no where near as prepared as Chicago is to handle snow!