Showing posts with label #SNOWPACALYPSE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #SNOWPACALYPSE. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

#FAIL #SNOWPACALYPSE: Chicago & suburbs brace for whiteout conditions - Chicagoist: You Say "Snowpacalypse," We Say "Tuesday"


Chicago's WMAQ-TV newscast with anchor Floyd Kalber,
February 23, 1967 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFRsgvMCEY


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FAIL #SNOWPACALYPSE

Meanwhile, in Chicagoland, home of "Big Shoulders" and even longer memories, including memories of 1967 and cars with no FWD careening into one another in hilly neighborhoods, neighbors and "former" friends who horned-in one time too many on your family's parking space that you claimed with an aluminum chaise chair... Chicagoist writes:

So the snow projected for tomorrow through Thursday is expected to finally give us the whole "Thundersnow/Snowpacalypse" big dump of white powder worthy of dibs that we've really been missing so far. Already, meteorologists are comparing this to previous large blizzards.
Read the rest of the post and things-to-do-when-you're f-f-f-freezing list at
http://chicagoist.com/2011/01/31/2011_february_blizzard_chicago_frea.php


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVjse_DHRj4

Hmm-m... blizzard conditions, snow up to three-inches an hour and and 60 m.p.h. winds... watching from a safe distance away, as WGN-TV's beloved meteorologist Tom Skilling predicts a low of, yes, , and wind chills 10 to 20 below Wednesday night in Chicago:

Listen live to WGN Radio:
http://player.streamtheworld.com/_players/wgn/


Weather:
http://www.chicagoweathercenter.com/

And don't forget to spray PAM on your DirecTV or DISH-TV satellite dishes!

See also: http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/23feb1967/index.html