Karma is a cold bitch!!
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/02/01/officials-shut-down-lake-shore-drive/
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/new...hore-drive-chicago-closed-plows-road-20110201
Drivers Evacuated from Cars Stuck on Lake Shore Drive After Blizzard Slams Chicago
Updated: Wednesday, 02 Feb 2011, 11:45 AM CST
Published : Tuesday, 01 Feb 2011, 9:17 PM CST
Associated Press and FOX Chicago News
Chicago - Dozens of motorists were stranded for over 10 hours on Chicago's iconic Lake Shore Drive after it was shut down as a blizzard battered the city. Although cars have been relocated from the roadway, there was no indication when the drive would reopen to traffic.
City officials said that 1,000 cars were stranded on the roadway overnight.
City officials said if you abandoned your car on Lake Shore Drive, you can call 311 to try to locate it. All vehicles have been relocated to three city lakefront lots -- Wilson Ave., Belmont Ave. and Chicago Ave. -- plus one lot on Wells Street. Drivers will be able to retrieve their cars for free.
City officials said early Wednesday that multiple lanes of cars and buses became stuck on the northbound lanes of the city's crucial thoroughfare because of abandoned vehicles, multiple accidents and generally poor traffic conditions.
Rescue officials were evacuating motorists from their cars overnight and guiding some to stranded buses to keep them warm.
Motorist Frank Ercole told WLS-TV in Chicago that no one had any information and "everything was frozen." He described the scene as "insane."
City officials say the drive was closed just before 8 p.m. Tuesday. They worried that winds up to 60 mph could push waves from Lake Michigan over the roadway.
Some drivers said they tried to get home from work at 5 p.m. and were stuck in traffic well into the night.
Emergency workers began to get to cars early Wednesday morning. Crews checked every car for passengers, and cars that were abandoned were towed.
Cars Stuck on Lake Shore Drive | Originally reported by: myFOXChicago.com
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Updated 2/2/11 8:00 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – Lake Shore Drive was a disaster area overnight, as motorists found themselves stranded for up to 12 hours and ended up in the hospital.
As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, many motorists were just trying to get home, but the blizzard made that impossible.
Initially, Lake Shore Drive was moving smoothly as the evening rush began, but conditions began to deteriorate following several accidents. There were three accidents between 7:15 and 7:45 p.m., one of them involving a CTA bus. Shortly afterward, there were two more accidents just south of North Avenue.
The accidents caused cars and buses to back up, and as the snow piled up, vehicles became immobilized and off-ramps became impassable. Lake Shore Drive was closed at 7:58 p.m., and fire and police personnel worked to move as many cars as possible off the highway and remove people who could not get out on their own.
Newsradio 780 was flooded with calls from stranded motorists who said they had been stuck on Lake Shore Drive for over seven hours and saw people abandoning their cars.
Newsradio 780′s Lisa Fielding reports Sue Baker left her Hyde Park office around 5 p.m. and nearly seven hours later, she remained in the same spot, “We haven’t moved. It’s kinda scary. There are snow drifts on our cars now.”
Mayor’s chief of staff Raymond Orozco said first responders tried to get to stranded motorists as quickly as possible, but winds of 60 to 70 mph and snow falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour made that extremely difficult.
The city shut down Lake Shore Drive, for the first time since the Blizzard of 1999.
Before the city shut down the Drive, traffic had been crawling; it took upwards of an hour to travel only a mile. Many cars were without a full tank of gas, and ended up running out.
Evanston attorney Craig Roeder says he got on Lake Shore Drive at 6 p.m. and headed north. He says he crept and crawled until just south of Fullerton Parkway, when traffic ground to a halt around 9:30 pm.
And there he sat, in whiteout conditions for six hours, until 3:20 a.m. when WBBM Newsradio 780’s David Roe was interviewing him on the phone.
LISTEN: Newsradio 780′s David Roe reports
“There are some emergency people now coming with flashlights between the cars,” Roeder said. “What we had been hearing is that they were taking people out into fire trucks because the buses couldn’t get through, so it looks like this could be our rescue here.”
Jim Glonke was stranded near North Avenue for 11 hours. He told CBS 2 he left his office in Chinatown in the late afternoon Tuesday, and it was backed up. He arrived at North Avenue around 7 p.m., and traffic stopped completely for an hour or two. Glonke was told a jackknifed bus was to blame.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/02/01/officials-shut-down-lake-shore-drive/
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/new...hore-drive-chicago-closed-plows-road-20110201
Drivers Evacuated from Cars Stuck on Lake Shore Drive After Blizzard Slams Chicago
Updated: Wednesday, 02 Feb 2011, 11:45 AM CST
Published : Tuesday, 01 Feb 2011, 9:17 PM CST
Associated Press and FOX Chicago News
Chicago - Dozens of motorists were stranded for over 10 hours on Chicago's iconic Lake Shore Drive after it was shut down as a blizzard battered the city. Although cars have been relocated from the roadway, there was no indication when the drive would reopen to traffic.
City officials said that 1,000 cars were stranded on the roadway overnight.
City officials said if you abandoned your car on Lake Shore Drive, you can call 311 to try to locate it. All vehicles have been relocated to three city lakefront lots -- Wilson Ave., Belmont Ave. and Chicago Ave. -- plus one lot on Wells Street. Drivers will be able to retrieve their cars for free.
City officials said early Wednesday that multiple lanes of cars and buses became stuck on the northbound lanes of the city's crucial thoroughfare because of abandoned vehicles, multiple accidents and generally poor traffic conditions.
Rescue officials were evacuating motorists from their cars overnight and guiding some to stranded buses to keep them warm.
Motorist Frank Ercole told WLS-TV in Chicago that no one had any information and "everything was frozen." He described the scene as "insane."
City officials say the drive was closed just before 8 p.m. Tuesday. They worried that winds up to 60 mph could push waves from Lake Michigan over the roadway.
Some drivers said they tried to get home from work at 5 p.m. and were stuck in traffic well into the night.
Emergency workers began to get to cars early Wednesday morning. Crews checked every car for passengers, and cars that were abandoned were towed.
Cars Stuck on Lake Shore Drive | Originally reported by: myFOXChicago.com
____________________________________________________________________________
Updated 2/2/11 8:00 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – Lake Shore Drive was a disaster area overnight, as motorists found themselves stranded for up to 12 hours and ended up in the hospital.
As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, many motorists were just trying to get home, but the blizzard made that impossible.
Initially, Lake Shore Drive was moving smoothly as the evening rush began, but conditions began to deteriorate following several accidents. There were three accidents between 7:15 and 7:45 p.m., one of them involving a CTA bus. Shortly afterward, there were two more accidents just south of North Avenue.
The accidents caused cars and buses to back up, and as the snow piled up, vehicles became immobilized and off-ramps became impassable. Lake Shore Drive was closed at 7:58 p.m., and fire and police personnel worked to move as many cars as possible off the highway and remove people who could not get out on their own.
Newsradio 780 was flooded with calls from stranded motorists who said they had been stuck on Lake Shore Drive for over seven hours and saw people abandoning their cars.
Newsradio 780′s Lisa Fielding reports Sue Baker left her Hyde Park office around 5 p.m. and nearly seven hours later, she remained in the same spot, “We haven’t moved. It’s kinda scary. There are snow drifts on our cars now.”
Mayor’s chief of staff Raymond Orozco said first responders tried to get to stranded motorists as quickly as possible, but winds of 60 to 70 mph and snow falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour made that extremely difficult.
The city shut down Lake Shore Drive, for the first time since the Blizzard of 1999.
Before the city shut down the Drive, traffic had been crawling; it took upwards of an hour to travel only a mile. Many cars were without a full tank of gas, and ended up running out.
Evanston attorney Craig Roeder says he got on Lake Shore Drive at 6 p.m. and headed north. He says he crept and crawled until just south of Fullerton Parkway, when traffic ground to a halt around 9:30 pm.
And there he sat, in whiteout conditions for six hours, until 3:20 a.m. when WBBM Newsradio 780’s David Roe was interviewing him on the phone.
LISTEN: Newsradio 780′s David Roe reports
“There are some emergency people now coming with flashlights between the cars,” Roeder said. “What we had been hearing is that they were taking people out into fire trucks because the buses couldn’t get through, so it looks like this could be our rescue here.”
Jim Glonke was stranded near North Avenue for 11 hours. He told CBS 2 he left his office in Chinatown in the late afternoon Tuesday, and it was backed up. He arrived at North Avenue around 7 p.m., and traffic stopped completely for an hour or two. Glonke was told a jackknifed bus was to blame.
who's keeping score
I remember that. Talking shit about "Atlanta can't deal with a little ice/snow". same thing happens every where when there is ice on the roads.
