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  • #594669
    ✡onegoal™
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    From what I’m hearing Chicago is supposed to get a historic blizzard Tuesday night/Wednesday with 18 foot waves from Lake Michigan splashing up onto Lake Shore Drive thus closing it down. Are you in Chicago?

    #734800
    Sapphire
    Member

    Wow, another snowstorm…and it’s only the very beginning of February!

    revised as per request

    #734802
    deiyezooger
    Member

    New York is getting ice, anyways chicago folks keep us updated.

    #734803
    candy613
    Member

    Chicago is just the best! What can i say?!?!?!

    #734804
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    Hey candy613 When did you write that you got home late last night?

    ^MONIS^

    #734805
    TheGoq
    Participant

    “Wow…Baruch Hashem, I don’t live there”

    that is not a very nice thing to say cant you have some empathy for your fellow jews?

    #734806

    For those of you high and mighty “in towners”

    Watch how a real world class city run by corrupt thugs handles a blizzard of this magnitude

    Did they ever get around to plowing in Brookyln?

    #734807
    Josh31
    Participant

    Here in Dallas we had an ice and sleet storm closing all the schools, and now the coldest weather in a decade. Two football teams from Green Bay and Pittsburgh arrived yesterday bringing all this.

    #734808
    Avram in MD
    Participant

    cleverjewishpun,

    Watch how a real world class city run by corrupt thugs handles a blizzard of this magnitude

    A blizzard can’t be knee-capped!

    #734809
    jewishness
    Participant

    I read that just the other day the Illinois governor sanctioned the legal recognition of non straight marriages.

    I dont think Hashem is too pleased about that perversion. Maybe this is a sign of his displeasure.

    #734810
    charliehall
    Participant

    jewishness,

    Either the report was incorrect, or you misunderstood: The law that was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor sanctioned same sex civil unions, not marriages. And it doesn’t take effect for another four months.

    #734811

    Jewishness

    i think you have a point

    #734812
    jewishness
    Participant

    Charliehall,

    Yippie! Its same sex civil unions not marriages. Please tell me why that is O.K.! Last time I checked the Torah has a rather unpleasant take on any kind of union other than the traditional man/woman relationship.

    There is a Gemorah that states that one of the things that was the final cause for the coming of the mabul was the official documentation in those times of same gender unions.

    It is actually interesting that the result was the great deluge, and now it is a deluge that is rearing its ugly head on that state. Huge waves hitting Chicago…..waves…mabul….get my drift (drift- pun intended)?

    We know that Hashem works midah bmidah, so we are supposed to study his actions and figure out what they are reactions to. I think this one is not to far off.

    Please tell me why, its not going into effect for another four months makes any difference? Please! Its a law that has been signed in and is just waiting the necessary time. I dont understand in the least what your points are!

    #734813
    Sapphire
    Member

    The Goq (and anyone else feeling miffed): No hard feelings intended in my above post. I think Chicago is a very nice place, and feel bad for any hardships our fellow Jewish brethren may endure due to snowstorms and other events there. However, I expressed my gradtitude in that I don’t live there because I do not have to be terribly concerned (at least for the present moment) with:

    a)shoveling lots of snow again

    b)how certain relatives who are returning from overseas in the next day or two will be getting home

    c)how I’m going to get to work(s)

    etc.

    But this doesn’t take away from my empathy…

    On the bright side, fresh snow is really beautiful…And can be quite enjoyable…

    #734814
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    I’m in Chicago and I’m really psyched up for it. I love when it is just complete chaos. Then again… carpool… food… work…

    ^MONIS^

    #734815

    Yay! it started and i got out of school two and a half hours early!!!!!!! Now, if only it continues through tomorrow…:)

    #734816
    ronrsr
    Member

    In Boston, we already have had about 75 major snowstorms, or so it seems.

    Another six inches of snow today makes me feel a bit hopeless. For tomorrow’s storm, we are right on the rain/snow line. Could be another foot of snow, or could be lots of freezing rain. What a choice!

    #734817
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    I’m in Chicago and the wind is ridiculously strong with snow. The main streets are not plowed which is a change for Chicago.

    #734818
    TheGoq
    Participant

    sapphire not to belabor the point but u may as well have said better them than me it was kinda cold.

    #734819
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    The title is now wrong! the blizzard is no longer upcoming its here!!!

    #734820
    Josh31
    Participant

    onegoal: Last time I recall you were in LA. I was in the 1979 blizzard in Chicago, and by April 1980 I had moved to LA!!!

    #734821
    Sapphire
    Member

    The Goq, I suppose that is one of the negative effects of such threads/emails/texts – the emotion is missing.

    I’m not sure I fully understand why it sounds so bad, but I am sorry you feel this way. I’ll try to be careful next time… Does anyone else feel slighted? In either case-

    Mods, can you please revise my first post earlier (2nd post in this thread) so that all it says is:

    Wow, another snowstorm…and it’s only the very beginning of February!

    How’s that, The Goq?

    #734822
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I heard that EMS has snowmobiles, and that National Guard was called out.

    I guess that is the difference between having a dictator mayor who takes care of the city (Daley), and some billionaire who thinks mayoring is fun.

    #734823
    candy613
    Member

    well its getting really bad here!!! HEY MAYBE WE CAN BE LIKE NY NOW!!!!!!

    #734824
    candy613
    Member

    WE CAN HAVE SNOW DAYS JUST LIKE THEM!!!! LOL 😉

    #734825

    at this rate, there really won’t be school tomorrow… PLEASE HASHEM!!!!!:)

    #734826
    Sapphire
    Member

    Thank you mods!

    Re Chicago’s organized operation snowstorm system (don’t know if this is true, just remarking on P.B.A.’s post): I think most places that are used to getting big snowstorms are prepared for such conditions…I think in Canada they have these snow machines (for getting rid of the snow) that go on the sidewalks. Someone mentioned to me recently that he saw one in the U.S. for the first time…

    #734827

    oh my!!!!! we’re really getting it bad! the wind is crazy, you can’t see when driving (i mean, you could maybe see the lights right in front of you) it’s terrible! yyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! school was out 1/2 hour early (smile e face- i’m not even jealous)no work for me tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!

    as i am writing this, i hear a city guy plowing the snow with a little plow. CRAZY GUY, why do it now if we’re expecting another twenty inches???????????????????????

    #734828
    candy613
    Member

    Hmmmm…. Smiley face do i knw you???????

    #734829

    lol, was going to ask you the same q.. prob. but we might b in diff schools, or we might b in the same class or u might b who i think u r in which case ur rofl at how stupid i am!

    #734830
    gefen
    Participant

    Yup – blowing pretty badly right now. Visibility really poor.

    btw – Smile E Face – ur twin sis got out 3 hours early – na na.

    Hey candy613 – i wonder if we know you. oh well – i guess we may never find out 🙂

    Anyway – we Chicagoans will keep everyone posted on this blizzard.

    #734832
    TheGoq
    Participant

    much better sapphire ty

    #734833
    candy613
    Member

    hmmm… i gotta figure this out now!!!! Smiley face are you really a twin??? and do you go to school on peterson or devon by any chance????

    and hey gefen are you in that class too?????

    #734835
    yossi z.
    Member

    Boston uses bobcats on the sidewalk

    Ronrsr: do I know you? (I was born in boston and lived there for about 13-14 years. My parents still live there)

    #734836
    candy613
    Member

    K smile E. face i for suuuuuuuuuure know you!!!!!! and geffen you too!!!!!!

    #734837
    seminaryhelp
    Member

    Lake Shore Drive is already closed off due to waves of LAke Michigan are gonna go over it and freeze!!! Nothing like good ol’ chi town 😀

    #734838
    deiyezooger
    Member

    “Someone mentioned to me recently that he saw one in the U.S. for the first time… “

    “Boston uses bobcats on the sidewalk”

    In the town of Ramapo thay have it too.

    only in NYC are people fined for not cleaning a sidewalk owend by the city, nice of them they dont make people clean the road too.

    #734839
    candy613
    Member

    hey seminary help you seem to be my age maybe i know you too!!!!! *wink wink* lol

    #734840
    Sapphire
    Member

    Didn’t know they’re called bobcats…or that they’re so popular…but I guess that was obvious…

    #734841
    yossi z.
    Member

    Bobcats, mini front loaders, etc there are many names for these little trucks just happens to be boston uses the ones that are made by bobcat (hence the name of the truck)

    #734842
    candy613
    Member

    hey smiley face and gefen what sems are you guys applyin to??? Bais chaya Mushkah?

    #734843
    bbyg
    Participant

    so since this is chicago, the streets are all getting plowed & they probablly won’t cancel school, b/c again this is chicago & here they never cancel b/c our great mayor has all the plows up & running since before the storm even started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sooooo sweet dreams to having no school tomorrow! i’ll see you all there nice & early at 8:_ _ (i wont say what time b/c then e/1 knows what skwl i go 2 & then my cover will b found out!!!!!!)

    #734844
    bbyg
    Participant

    & hey hu r u , candy, smile e face, geffen, & seminary????????????????? i prob know all of u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it wud b so kwl if we found out hu each of us r!!!!!!

    #734848
    seminaryhelp
    Member

    Well I go to school on Peterson 😉

    #734849
    bbyg
    Participant

    Asking for personal information is against the rules. You may volunteer anything you wish, but please consider whether you want to. This is the internet, and it is very searchable.

    #734850
    seminaryhelp
    Member

    Ahhhhhh of course there wont be skl tomorrow imH just look outside!!!!! And the bad stuff is supposed to be between 9 pm and 5 am with thunder and lightning…..and “life threatening winds”

    #734855
    bbyg
    Participant

    ok sem person i 4sure know u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also go 2 skwl on peterson & there’s only 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    #734857
    candy613
    Member

    ha ha all our secrets are bein uncovered i think i knw who all u are!!!! well almost….!

    #734858
    ✡onegoal™
    Participant

    What is this? I start a thread and it becomes a chat room!

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