Some images after the Chicago Thundersnow
Here are some images taken during my trip downtown earlier today after the now famous Thundersnow of 2011. My tour started roughly at Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River and I looped through Lake Shore Drive and Division Street. What a beautiful, snow-covered site (My hands are still recovering from the cold)!
Chicagoans of all ages played on the frozen tundra of the Oak Street Beach, threw caution tape to the wind and walked across Lake Shore Drive, found refuge in a shoveled out embankment intended for pedestrians, and used the hill at General John Logan Statue (at the corner of 9th and Michigan) for a downtown sled fest. One nearly forgets that we’ve been hit with what the Chicago Tribune calls the “third biggest on record in Chicago.” Thousands in Chicagoland are still without power, and cars still remained stranded. For the day at least, Chicago was quieter than I’d ever experienced.
