Blizzard 2011

It is kind of hard to explain exactly how much snow we got, and the pictures hardly do it justice, but the 3rd biggest snowfall in recorded Chicago history was certainly a pain to clear off the driveway.

This should have been our first clue that it was going to be bad, WalMart's bread aisle the night before:

I (Garth) woke up and logged-on to work without even really looking outside. We knew that school had been cancelled and that many of the area roads had been closed. My office was closed, so I didn't even bother to see how much snow had actually accumulated. They were forecasting about 18 inches (that seemed a bit extreme to me).

This is the view I had out the office window:

Here's the view out the back window:

Then I went out with the kids to shovel the driveway:

We found 30 inches of snow, starting at our garage door and drifted in every direction, and we don't have a snow blower.

Here is the path Ane and I finished after a couple hours of steady shoveling: