The construction will put in place concrete barriers that look like the existing barrier walls, but which are movable. They will stay closed except during emergencies.

I look forward to the pictures of heavy barrier-moving equipment stuck in traffic during a storm.

Before you all come in on your chain-tire equipped high-horses, let me just say this. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan (suburbs) in my early 30's, and I have never in my life seen anything like the Feb. 2011 storm here. This kind of snowfall hasn't been seen in Chicago since the 60's. Took a lot of people off guard, even with the warnings.

/carry on

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Yeah, that was fun. Thankfully I didn't have to go anywhere for a couple of days after that nonsense.

/had a great time playing in the snow.

shroom: Before you all come in on your chain-tire equipped high-horses, let me just say this. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan (suburbs) in my early 30's, and I have never in my life seen anything like the Feb. 2011 storm here. This kind of snowfall hasn't been seen in Chicago since the 60's. Took a lot of people off guard, even with the warnings.

As a lifelong Chicagoan myself, I don't see how anyone was caught off guard. If you had any connection to the outside world, you knew the storm was coming. You could't turn on a tv or radio without them talking about it. It got to the point that I was ready to smash the tv, thinking that people couldn't possibly be so stupid to actually drive after hearing all the warnings. The next day the paper was filled with any comments that the city didn't do enough to warn people.

italie: //Skilling was calling that storm a monster ~more~ than a week out.

I like to trust Skilling. Then again, his brother is doing 24 years of PMIA for the Enron scandal. C'est la vie.

cardex: I think that the issue is that they have the full freak out don't leave your house you will be trapped warnings about 4 times every winter and nothing ever happens more of an issue with the city crying wolf too many times, at least that's how it was down in Springfield

That would be all fine and dandy, but the storm started around 2 when I was leaving work. Those people got stuck well after the storm was in full swing. Sure, leading up to the storm you could say it was the usual media hyping a story, but all it took was a quick look outside the day of to know it was the real deal.

HempHead: fn129: Needless to say, any employer made their employees stay past 4 pm that day when the blizzard started is an ass fissure of the highest calibur. It was entirely too dangerous to be out past about 5 that evening. Keeping 7-11 open isn't that important.

The top 1%s say it is. Corporate profits before all else.

I suppose that the fact that half those corporate profits are what fuel the 401k's and pension funds of 150 million americans doesnt enter into it.......After all, if only the 1% owned stock then why the fark would we care if the market crashed?

Come to think of it, if they own so much and they are so invested into the market, why is it that when the market crashes the business dries up and the jobs dry up?

I haven't met the business owner yet who will refuse to sell a product to someone just because the market crashed the day before. So what exactly is the link between the market crashing and the jobs going away? Businesses exist to sell goods and services, they employ people to that end. You dont lay off people when you need them to make goods that are in demand. You lay them off when the demand fades and you are bound by your contract to protect the investors capital.

Do the stock brokers have too much money? Probably. But there are what? About 15k actual rich stock brokers in Wall street? What do you think you would get if you liquidated them? Their stock would be worthless because if you are willing to seize all of a persons stock holdings, then the holdings are only valuable at the Governments whim, which means no one will pay you a dollar for them. SO what would you get? A bunch of hugely expensive cars that depreciated 45% when they drove off the lot, some expensive furniture with bourbon stains on it, Some mortgaged NYC penthouses?

The wealth you envy is largely paper. It doesnt exist after you topple the system trying to get it. The only thing you will accomplish is killing off the 'necessary evil' of the brokers.

Do you have the time and expertise to research and determine if a company is worth investing in? I dont think so. That why you need the jakasses on wall street.

Pussies.

March 2007 - Ed Greene on Channel 4 in Denver confidently predicts 9 feet of snow in the next 24 hours.

He was low.

Alright,admittedly it was for the foothills west of Boulder, but still...

40" on the flat in the 'burbs. Missed 1 day of work.

Pussies.

leevis: You can say that again. I live across the state line in Indiana and it's amazing what kind of stuff goes on in Chicago that doesn't make national news.

That's awfully rich coming from, uh, Indiana.

Ikam: leevis: You can say that again. I live across the state line in Indiana and it's amazing what kind of stuff goes on in Chicago that doesn't make national news.

That's awfully rich coming from, uh, Indiana.
He can read, I'll give him that much.