When I left for work this morning there were a few snowflakes in the air and the ground was dry. There’s eight inches of snow on the ground right now and it is still falling hard. The roads are plowed, at least, but the driveway into our townhouses garages aren’t; I had to bull my way through with my little two-wheel-drive and hope I didn’t get stuck – yay for snow-driving skills! I shoveled a bit to at least knock down the berm at the end of the driveway so others can get a better shot at getting in, though the whole time the phrase “heart attack snow” (the phrase that they’ve been bandying about to describe the wet, heavy snow that’s falling to day) was running through my head. Yes, I took it easy, but after about ten minutes I could see why they call it that. I’ll leave the rest to the Magical Snow Elves and their snow blowers and snow plows.

takaza wisely took Metra today; he should be on the 4:16 PM train into Grayslake. Hopefully he can get home without getting stuck anywhere.

When all this is done by tomorrow morning we’re supposed to have 6-12 inches total. I expect we’ll be pretty close to a foot, if not more.