Baby, it's cold outside

Here in Chicago, we barely caught the edge of the big storm that slammed the Mid-Atlantic region. It was enough to give us a bit of snow on Friday and Saturday, and lots of wind all weekend.

I headed down to North Avenue Beach in hopes of catching some stormy-wave action, but forgot that all the wind and water action would simply drive all the surface ice towards shore. The snow/ice crumpled up along the shore, looking calm and flat, but if you looked further out on the lake, there were whitecaps most of the day Saturday.

Most of all, though, it was simply cold, the wind blasting the city. And amazingly, there were some jogging die-hards out there, facing the freezing temperatures.

Chicago
February 2010