Chicago Blizzard 2011 - Lake Shore Drive

[hmoorencs15]

Thanks for filming this

[veronicatoussaint]

HOLY COW ! MY POST

[GoBuckeyes86]

Damn, the apocalyptic comment you made in the video is right. That's crazy. Seemed like sometime of scary movie.

[ANBU671]

you should've seen the people here in washington in december. damn people freaked out over 2in of snow lmao

[patisawesome1]

@ANBU671 LOL

[AmunTheGreat]

Looks like a god damn wasteland

[Vistamister]

Even in the calamity of it all, Chicago and the lake front look beautiful.

[Xone7]

Good work. Great video!

[FederationEmissary]

Great video.

[sky6533]

Excellent video, really captured the whole scene. Better than the news ;) Thanks for sharing!

[rhymeandreasoning]

Greetings from Montreal, Canada....heard u all got some snow...lol..we got a lot last night also..though not as much as u all... great video..!! my best to you..

[GreanTV]

I was there

[stanekfelix]

Perfectly captures the apocalyptic atmosphere! Cool!

The sunset, the public announcement sound, empty streets, abandoned bus & cars! Book of Eli, winter edition.

[skeemo13]

u call this shit snow...michigan has 3 times that much and none of our stores close...they think they got it so bad...d

[daveswagon]

@skeemo13 Glad to hear all three of your streets up there got cleared so quickly

[steveryans2]

@daveswagon hahaahha well played. Yeah no shit, this is a major metropolis, not a backwater town of 15,000. Detroit has now fallen into the latter category btw

[neilb4me7]

@skeemo13 Hey Moron...comparing Chicago's response to some tiny burg in Michigan is utterly idiotic.

[arsenicqueen69]

@skeemo13- This wasn't even just Chicago ,it went all the way through the Chicagoland area. People in my neighborhood couldn't even get out of driveways until they plowed our streets, which they didn't do until the next day at around 12 p.m. They made a perfectly rational decision to allow people to get home quickly, and they did the best they could. Don't talk about podunk Michigan.

[XXChicagoGuy]

@arsenicqueen69 haha, "podunk Michigan?" Metropolitan Detroit has over 6 million residents. I wouldn't exactly call the "podunk." But then again you are a fellow Chicagoan, you think you're better than everyone else. Exactly why I moved.

[sciffycirco]

500 views before I saw it. I got stuck at the Meijer's in Rolling Meadows, IL, about 8pm, along with a dozen other people. Bus had been running 45 minutes late, and the other seemed to be running not at all. Somebody later pulled off the road, and an ambulance was called to deal with hypothermia, I assume. Power went off after midnight, generators hadn't gone back on in an hour, they covered the open coolers with plastic tarps. Wednesday morning, danged near every place was closed.

[McDaidUSA]

Great documentary, well done, looks like an all day project, very educational. 

[ozzyme1220]

Crazy! I have to drive on lake shore tomorrow to get to school...I wonder if it'll be all clear by then..

[hebneh]

First question: Where did all the occupants of the vehicles go? How did they get out?

Second question: I notice many of the abandoned cars had their windshield wipers pulled outwards. Was this a sign that emergency workers had checked to see if anyone was still inside?

[sky6533]

@hebneh wipers are pulled outward so they don't freeze to the windshield.

[daveswagon]

@sky6533 True, but every car out there had their wipers up. Local media is reporting that it was a sign that they had been searched by emergency workers.

[g1stealth]

anyone seen the TV show "Life after people"? this looks like a scene from that

[crispy66]

Great video. It really captivated the enormity of this storm. I live in the west burbs, and it is bad but not like that.

[richardchristel]

What time did you take this video at?

[daveswagon]

@richardchristel Can't answer that since filming cops is a felony in Illinois =(

[daredevil1]

@daveswagon That's not true.

[daveswagon]

@daredevil1 Google "Eavesdropping Laws Mean That Turning On an Audio Recorder Could Send You to Prison" and read the NYT article that comes up

[daredevil1]

@daveswagon Well that's a bunch of crap lol. Unconstitutional. The Constitution = the law of the land.