@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:
Holding my breath for everyone in the storm area.
I remember a great deal of snow when I lived in the Chicago area for five years when I was a kid. We arrived there in a blizzard that I don't now see a record online of, around Nov. 4th in 1950. There was a biggie around Thanksgiving, 1950, and apparently another biggie in the early part of December. Chihuahua! We had a large side yard and the drifts could be huge, though not as high as seven feet in our particular yard, that I remember.
In my googleing all this, I see Chicago has historically relatively little snow in comparison to, say, Cleveland.
There was a big one in Chicago also in the late 60s. Public transportion in Chicago still went on though. From the loop to about 119th st and Morgan it took about 6 hours.
In Boston, in 1978, all public transportation stopped. No cars were permitted in Boston, except for emergency vans. The crowd at the Boston Garden for a basketball game, was not permitted to leave and the City of Boston was under martial law with armed troops.
No troops were called out, as far as I know during the 60s storm in Chicago.
The folks in Chicago ( inner City ) are far tougher than those living in the City of Boston.
