Driving in the snow is fun!

Yeah, as y’all may have heard, we got a little snow in the Chicago area today. In the city itself it wasn’t too bad – I estimated that there was maybe two or three inches of wet, heavy snow on my car when I went out at 6:30 this morning. Once I extricated myself from where I had been parked in (gods, I hate parking on the street!) it was time to begin the fun:

North on Jersey to Peterson, Peterson west to the Edens, the Edens north to Touhy (took 15 minutes), Touhy west to Caldwell (traffic light was out), Caldwell north to Golf, Golf west to the Tri-State Tollway. Tri-State Tollway north (25 mph all the way, snow depth and accumulation rate increasing as I go – stop twice to clear snow out from under wipers). Try to get off at 137/Buckley Road – accident on the ramp between a truck and a car, no dice. Continue north to 120/Belvidere Road – truck stuck on the ramp, no dice. Continue north to 132/Grand Ave. Grand Ave. west (parts still unplowed, a good 10″ of snow on the ground) to US 45. US 45 south to IL 120. IL 120 west to Wilson Road.

Total travel time: Three Hours. It’s normally a 45-minute drive.

Well, that was fun.

I expect the roads are going to suck even worse tonight as everything starts freezing. With luck, I’ll be heading northwards after work to Antioch rather than deal with all of the foolishness in the city. We’ll see…