In Elgin, plows were pulled off the roads because traveling became "simply too dangerous," city officials said. "This will be a storm that a lot of people remember for a long time," said Jose Santiago, Executive Director of OEMC. They suggested staying indoors and booking hotels over night. Officials from the Office of Emergency Management and Streets and Sanitation Department twice warned commuters not to test the roads.
Midway International Airport, on the Southwest Side, was reporting 10.2 inches of snow on the ground as of about 10:45 p.m. That’s a significant increase from earlier, when only 2.8 inches of snow fell at the airport between noon and 6 p.m. and midnight Wednesday and had a foot of snow on the ground at 12:20 a.m., according to a National Weather Service snow depth report. O’Hare International Airport saw 10.6 inches of snow between about 6 p.m. Predictions called for up to 24 inches of white stuff, and as of 1 a.m. “The forecast for us for that weekend was 6 to 8 inches and I think we ended up getting 19 inches that weekend,” said meteorologist Matt Friedlein of the National Weather Service.Ĭould Chicago get caught off guard again? Who knows, but one thing is certain, and that’s that technology is better today than it was then.Watch Live: Chicago's Top Doctor to Give COVID-19 Update Tuesday The city had a much better result responding to the Super Bowl blizzard last year. “Anything can go wrong during a snow storm.you can have a major fire during a snow storm, you could have a water main break, so the city is on high alert all the time,” managing deputy of OEMC Rich Guidice said.
The biggest lesson the city has learned since that storm is preparing for the unexpected. “I got stuck at the end and had to go down like MLK through South Chicago and it took me three hours,” another Chicagoan added. “Oh it was terrible.I mean it was a blizzard, I got home and on the news they were showing cars stuck,” a Chicagoan said. However, Chicago’s certainly not immune to tough lessons like DC's.
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