Chicago Blizzard 2011 - Abandoned Bus on Lake Shore Drive

[WilliamStormcutter]

I remember that day, 4 feet of snow in front on my house!! it was crazy!! but now i live somewhere warmer

[26Deacon]

i'll never forget the day after the blizzard when nothing was running but the L trains & i took the red line to the Target in Uptown to grab some liquor & light bulbs. that was fun. lol.

[JaysonThomas]

Atleast I was safe at home during this blizzard! Maybe these people should have done the same?!

[Al123456ize]

@JaysonThomas LOL this comment makes me laugh. the people were heading home and it was just snowing lighty. and im sure as it progressed they got trapped. because us chicago people let nothing ruin our day or night. besides we get so much snow anyways were used to it but nobody was expecting it to get this bad,

[MYM45ONTUBE]

Cool video! Looked like some 2012 shit =0

[skarosTHEgreek]

@Ilovemusic3225 I live in the chicago area and I don't see it yet. I've read articles but so far it seems pretty calm. No snow (over 2 inches) for the next ten days so... Yes.

[Andrew1224gd]

this year could be a repeat forecasts are saying!

[lukuleleLOL]

I went to a party during the blizzard no joke.

[brendan129]

@svenskakr4 A) The bus is not a total loss. In fact, it has no damage to it whatsoever from what is shown in that video. It more than likely took a recharging of it's batteries, a safety inspection and a cleaning before it was placed back on service, probably within 3 days. B) It was not the biggest blizzard Chicago has seen since 1941, the 1967 and 1999 blizzards were both larger and longer and in fact, the 1941 blizzard didn't even affect Chicago, it was a Wisconsin/Minnesota Blizzard.

[tribar1022]

@brendan129

1979 was a bad year too

[brendan129]

@tribar1022 But smaller than 2011

[kjchicago1]

@tribar1022 Remeber the 1967 blizzard? I do and I was a kid back then! I was also a kid in '79(a teen in January 1979)when that blizzard hit as well!

[tribar1022]

@kjchicago1

I'm 15 so i don't but i've heard of it. I heard it was like 65 degrees a couple days before as well. Very Bizarre

[grapesofwraith1066]

It does look like a movie set of an apocalypse movie...though of course with real snow and ice instead of fake stuff...

[SonicGeneration]

That bus does look like an apocalypse scene.. if you ignore the people outside haha.. kinda scary

[GIRAIDY]

i guess it snowed? :O

[TheBestThereEverWaz]

I remember going to the auto show like a week after and we took this street. Wow. Crazy stuff.

[brendan129]

Did he really call an empty bus with some snow in it an, "Apocalypse scene"? Seriously? People walking around, the sun out, and signs of life everywhere and this is referred to as an "Apocalypse scene". I really wish pretentiousness and being melodramatic got those guilty of it placed in front of a firing squad.

[daveswagon]

@brendan129 Almost as "pretentious and melodramatic" as saying people should be placed in front of firing squads for the way they narrate YouTube videos? Give me a break, armchair cowboy.

[brendan129]

@daveswagon My point exactly.

[RG0087]

@daveswagon You told him right... Good job... :)

[Nightsparrow626]

@brendan129 O HAI HOW IS TROLLTOWN DOING TODAY BUD?

[brendan129]

@Nightsparrow626 Things are just peachy today, 7 months ago when this post was made however, things were much different. Please try to keep current next time. kthnx.

[Nightsparrow626]

@brendan129 Much different, huh? That would explain your pilgrimage out into the bright, social world to gather trollings for the trollfolk back home. Time is relative anyway.

[brendan129]

@Nightsparrow626 umad bro?

[deadsaid]

what a day to remember. i'll never forget walking down the middle of the biggest highways and understanding what it feels like to have the world come to a stop. it was something i will never forget and will surely tell my grand kids about... unless these crazy blizzards become common.

[AccessDenied55]

@deadsaid Yes, same

I walked down 1-57 for about 7-8 miles at like 4AM in the blizzard

It felt like I was in a totally new world and that civilization had moved away

[BiPolarBS]

@deadsaid OMG, I know! After 6 years in Chicago the weather forecasters were actually correct and predicted this - snowstorm. The world didn't end. The world doesn't revolve around Chicago. It wasn't 9/11 revisted. It took some of us a lil' longer to get home but we stopped at the store, picked up some junk food and movies and relaxed. Believe it or not.

[qwandiddy]

HOLY CRAP!!!! A North Park Bus!!

[rmadisonwi]

The doors are air operated. With the bus shut off for hours (and thus, the air compressor not running), the air would have leaked out of the doors, and the high winds could easily blow them open. I'm sure the doors were shut when the bus was first abandoned.

[hebneh]

Folding bus doors are not very weathertight even when they're closed. I suspect with the high wind, snow would've blown inside even if the doors had been left shut, and it wouldn't have melted because the heat was off after the bus was abandoned.

But there was no reason to close the doors anyway, as people were leaving. They had more important concerns at that point, like managing to survive and get to shelter.

[The43501]

@hebneh the red know or "cherry" by the front and back doors,pull it for the front doors they open if they are already open the air is realesed, and they close manually. the back doors pull the knob the alarm sounds. when the bus is turned off the front doors open slightly so the operator can exit and pull then closed,its a safety feature.

[gasdorf]

why did they panic walk away with the doors open in them cars?