I-43 is impassable between Beloit and Mukwonago...
Four-thirty a.m.; this wasn't my usual musical wake-up call. The nationally syndicated radio station program was interrupted for a brief update on local conditions.
A portion of the roof at Wrigley Field has blown off...
A peek out the front door shows the plow has gone through at least once; the plowed ridge is only halfway up the wheels of my car. Can it really be that little snow? Or is it a trick of the city grid, a pocket where snow didn't, couldn't drift because of the arrangement of the houses and apartment buildings? A look after the next time a plow comes through would be more realistic.
I-94 is impassable from Milwaukee south to the state line...
If you have the inclination, send up prayers for those who must be out in this storm - law enforcement, fire professionals, medical personnel, military troops and all those working to clear the snow. I may have the luxury of sitting with my cup of coffee, watching the wind blow the snow sideways; they don't.
The state has issued a civil danger warning...do not travel unless it is an emergency...
Not much risk of that, here. I have cookie dough in the refrigerator, hot coffee already made, and plenty to do inside before joining the neighbors in the great dig out. The television is on low in the background, the anchors filling the air with predictions that in the end, this storm will be worse than the all-time worst blizzard to hit Milwaukee, back in 1947.
As was the pattern of the last couple of snowstorms, once this clears our temperatures will drop into the deep freeze; anything not cleared today will be immovable until it warms again on Sunday.
Personally, not moving until Sunday would be wonderful.
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