And God said, "I shall freeze Babylon"

[trythil]

Didn't truck my fancy-schmancy camera equipment out with me to work today; all I had was my phone. But I thought I'd share a picture that I found funny.

As some of you may know, major parts of North America are getting pummeled by a very intense winter storm.

Lake Shore Drive, which is part of US highway 41, is an iconic part of Chicago, Illinois, USA. I haven't yet bothered to take any particularly interesting photographs of the area, mostly because I suck, but there's a few nice ones on the linked Wikipedia pages. And I've got at least one picture of LSD in summer. The point: Lake Shore Drive is always busy.

Anyway, here was Lake Shore Drive this afternoon. It pretty much never looks like this:



Will post tomorrow with another image illustrating what a day can do. I probably also have some images from a similar vantage point in my archives that illustrate what it usually looks like around this time of year; will dig those up if I can find them.

A Chicago Tribune photographer took this image of Lake Shore Drive, which is much more evocative than anything I captured:

[Glitzer]

Here's a shirt for you trythil

[trythil]

Here's a shirt for you trythil
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I can imagine a scenario in which I'm wearing that this summer and then a relative of one of the 14 fatalities so far (according to Wikipedia) beats the shit out of me.

[trythil]

It just came to my attention that there exists a Babylon, Illinois.

I haven't yet found any snowfall data for that place yet, but they're far enough west that they may have escaped the brunt of the storm.

If so.

[dj_ultima_the_great]

Yeah, I live in south(western) Wisconsin, and the snowpocalypse was pretty epic. I sadly did not take any pictures of my own, but this is from one of my professors outside of a hall on campus:



Not the most engaging photo, but it gives you an idea of how things are around here. Everyone has had to dig out their cars. The snowfall came up to most folks' license plates, but the drifts were much higher. I don't know what the actual snowfall was, but I know it was predicted to be 22 inches, and if I had to guesstimate, I think we hit that.


- Jen

[guy07]

Holly crap! ... It looks like Canada! lol. We got a bit of a blizzard in Toronto but it wasn't even half of what you guys got. I heard a few cities like Hamilton got hit pretty good tho.

[BasharOfTheAges]

We've had about 4 ft of snow in the past 3 weeks up here. Current depths are around 30-40 inches. Trying to get out of my condo complex is somewhat dangerous as it goes onto a pretty busy road and there's about 8 ft of piled snow blocking the view all the way out to the edge of the street.

[Kionon]

6" ...and still falling.