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Originally posted by Sister Havana
Oh, was it a nightmare on the roads yesterday. I am grateful to the public transit gods that I didn't have to drive all the way into the city! The train ride was fine, no problems there. But I caught a ride with a friend of mine from the Belmont train station and it took us an hour and a half to get back to town! (This trip normally takes 15 minutes if that.) It took my sister two hours to get home from her job two towns over. My mom had a two and a half hour commute.
My friend's husband had the biggest nightmare. He left Mundelein (way up north) at 4pm. By 7pm he was only about halfway home. (It took him two hours to get from Army Trail Road on I-355 to North Avenue on I-355, and that's the next exit!) As of 9pm he had only made it two exits closer. I have no idea when he eventually made it home. (We passed over the expressway on the way back from Belmont and it was a giant parking lot - no one was moving.)
And at Midway Airport, a jet skidded off the runway, broke through a barrier and ended up in the middle of Central Avenue at 55th Street, hitting a couple cars in the process. 
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Add me to the list who had a not so fun drive. My 15min. drive from the nw burbs turned into 3 hour tour to get to my brother's place in Chicago. As I drove over the expressways, they just looked like giant parking lots. Guess who slept over?
This morning the main streets were clean. I saw one person's mini-van stuck in a ditch which must have happened last night because of the amount of snow on top of it. I am so thankful for front and rear defrosters on the windows.
My SIL's best friend called because she thought the SIL was on that flight since that the one she sometimes uses when she goes out of town on business.
I just now got finished shoveling. It's a winter wonderland.