[QUOTE=daijitsu;38878142]there was just a thick snow flurry out by o'hare in chicago for the past hour. Nothing accumulated, though the trees and power lines are a dusty white already. Still some visible flakes drifting around but if the thicker snowfall didn't do anything this isn't going to have anymore effect
stop teasing, winter[/QUOTE]
Ya it snowed here in Lombard when I was at the barber earlier. Now it's like drizzly rain but fuck it I love Chicago's cold rainy weather.
Came home to this!
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/M3xe5.jpg[/thumb]
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[QUOTE=-nesto-;38882898]Ya it snowed here in Lombard when I was at the barber earlier. Now it's like drizzly rain but fuck it I love Chicago's cold rainy weather.[/QUOTE]
there's a local condition related to the dim, moist, grey, mushy snow seasons we have. It's called "Snow Associated Depression", aka "SAD". Lots of other locales refer to it for different reasons, and in all honesty it's a joke diagnosis, but the dismal winter conditions/polluted street slush is actually a major factor in a lot of depression this time of the year. it's just so GREY
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38882996]there's a local condition related to the dim, moist, grey, mushy snow seasons we have. It's called "Snow Associated Depression", aka "SAD". Lots of other locales refer to it for different reasons, and in all honesty it's a joke diagnosis, but the dismal winter conditions/polluted street slush is actually a major factor in a lot of depression this time of the year. it's just so GREY[/QUOTE]
So what if that weather has the exact opposite and makes you happy n relaxed :v:
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38882813]since september 22
it's really hard to use the word fiancé without feeling like I sound really braggy, but there aren't many other words to use that aren't wrong or imply that you know her name or something
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Nah I'm just happy for ya man.
[QUOTE=-nesto-;38883067]So what if that weather has the exact opposite and makes you happy n relaxed :v:[/QUOTE]
nah, the opposite conditions just make you tired and angry
lose/lose welcome to chi town
[QUOTE=Frankiscool!;38877604]Well, since i live in Indiana, temperatures are expected to actually RISE thursday morning into the low 50s...[/QUOTE]
Shit sucks. We didn't even get a lot of snow last year either. Looks like we're going to have yet another green Christmas.
[QUOTE=Firefox42;38882640]Yeah but you guys have some decent waterparks and beaches.[/QUOTE]On maps you can see the runoff. There are brown lines flowing into Lake Michigan because of the Region.
Steel mills man.
Steel mills.
I should probably mention my photoblog, most of the stuff I've posted lately has been in mid-chicago since I've been going out there for my job as of late. Going again after sundown tomorrow too
[url]http://365-ish.tumblr.com/[/url]
from the 7th, was in town for my birthday.
[t]http://25.media.tumblr.com/723723cc8194c396e94113ab4c761d4c/tumblr_mf9einTnyy1r223xwo1_1280.jpg[/t]
Haven't been updating very frequently but my archive is building up and I might have some free time to sift around over new years
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38882813]also wisconsin dells has to count for something in the waterpark department[/QUOTE]
My dad owns a pool chemical and equipment business. I think he sells a lot of equipment there (balancing pH levels and shit).
[editline]18th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=hippieman58;38873946]I'm currently living in Madison, WI and going to the university there.[/QUOTE]
What major? I have a friend. She's a freshman EE.
I've lived my whole life in small town in the suburbs of Chicago and loved it, but I'm not sure I want to go to college here once I graduate. I've only applied to Illinois schools thus far.
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It's really beautiful and scenic here. These pictures don't even remotely do my hometown justice.
I live in Pekin, IL which is about 10 minutes away from Peoria in Central Illinois. My town is filled with druggies and factories.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38886601]I should probably mention my photoblog, most of the stuff I've posted lately has been in mid-chicago since I've been going out there for my job as of late. Going again after sundown tomorrow too
[URL]http://365-ish.tumblr.com/[/URL]
from the 7th, was in town for my birthday.
[t]http://25.media.tumblr.com/723723cc8194c396e94113ab4c761d4c/tumblr_mf9einTnyy1r223xwo1_1280.jpg[/t]
Haven't been updating very frequently but my archive is building up and I might have some free time to sift around over new years[/QUOTE]
haha I walk past that building every day
construction on wacker seems to have finished finally
oh jeez the thought that I might be seeing daijitsu in the street occasionally
Fun fact: My grandfather worked on the first ever test interstate system.
Whats up lake county and northwest indiana people? Also going to Purdue currently so boiler up!
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;38891978]oh jeez the thought that I might be seeing daijitsu in the street occasionally[/QUOTE]
or is it I seeing you
also that construction was cool just down the road, wasn't the hole they dug like two stories deep in the middle of a major intersection? I rarely passed close to it even though it was there forever
I just heard that some folks tried to escape from the prison scraper in Downtown Chi town.
Fuck this weather. If my final tomorrow's cancelled, I'm fucked. I have a flight tomorrow at 5:25pm. My final better not be pushed to Friday.
As a Wisconsinite, the lack of snow is depressing. :(
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;38902991]I just heard that some folks tried to escape from the prison scraper in Downtown Chi town.[/QUOTE]
it's crazy stuff, beeing hearing about it all day. It's like the plot to a comedy prison movie
[quote]CHICAGO (AP) — Two convicted bank robbers who pulled off a daring overnight escape from a high-rise Chicago jail had [b]changed from their prison garb[/b] by the time they [b]hopped into a cab near the lock-up[/b], investigators said Wednesday as they expanded their manhunt for the men.
Authorities were raiding houses and combing through records looking for anybody with ties to the inmates who climbed out a jail window and [b]descended 20 stories using a makeshift rope[/b].[/quote]
I gotta add, it was [i]bedsheets tied end-to-end[/i]
[quote]The FBI said surveillance footage from a camera near the Metropolitan Correctional Center shows Kenneth Conley and Joseph Banks getting into a cab around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday — about four hours before workers spotted the rope dangling from the federal jail. The pair had changed from their orange jail-issued jumpsuits into light-colored pants and shirts, the FBI said.
"We don't know if they fashioned their own clothes, or what," said Special Agent Frank Bochte.
The FBI was offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of Conley and Banks, with the manhunt focused mainly on Chicago and its suburbs.
Law enforcement officials said at least three homes in the suburbs south of Chicago where one of the inmates once lived were searched Tuesday, and a suburban strip club where Conley once worked confirmed that investigators had visited.
Investigators believe the men had been at a home in Tinley Park, 25 miles southwest of Chicago, just hours before police [b]SWAT teams[/b] stormed it. A law enforcement official said the home was that of Conley's mother and that after the woman refused to let the escapees in, the men used a rock to break a window.
The person, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation so would speak only on condition of anonymity, said authorities also searched the home of a former girlfriend of Conley in nearby New Lenox, where the escapees had eaten breakfast.
In Orland Park, which borders Tinley Park, police Chief Timothy McCarthy said records revealed Conley had been arrested several years ago on a robbery charge.
"We looked at our own files and came up with a former colleague, a past associate," he said.
Orland Park officers helped search a house where the associate lives or once lived, he said, but there was no evidence the escaped inmates had been there.
But the chain of events illustrates just the kind of thing investigators are doing: looking through records, arrest reports and even traffic tickets in the hopes of finding where the men went.
Authorities have not said exactly how many people are involved with the search. But the entire 35-member staff of the U.S. Marshals Service's Chicago office was involved, a show of force that spokeswoman Belkis Cantor said "was rare."
[b]Many questions remained about how the two managed to pull off such an escape[/b] from the federal prison in the heart of downtown Chicago. [b]At the top of the list is how they could have smashed a gaping hole into the wall at the bottom of a 6-inch wide window being heard or seen by correctional officers.[/b]
Another question is why, in the federal facility that houses some 700 inmates, the correctional officers didn't notice the men were missing between a 10 p.m. headcount and one at 5 a.m.
A guidebook for jail inmates indicates there would have been headcounts at midnight and 3 a.m. But inmates aren't required to stand for those headcounts, only for ones at 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. It's unclear if guards may have been fooled by items the FBI said the men stuffed under their beds to make it appear they were there.
It's also unclear what happened between when authorities have said guards first realized the men were missing and when the rope was spotted at 7 a.m.
[b]Authorities also have not said how the two men managed to collect 200 feet of bed sheet or how the broke through the wall.
The escape bore a striking resemblance to one at the same jail in 1985[/b]. In that case, convicted murderer Bernard Welch and an accomplice, Hugh Colomb, smashed through a window with a bar from a weight set and used bed sheets and an electrical cord attached to a floor buffer to descend six stories to the ground.
William Rollins, a Washington, D.C., police detective at the time who was brought in by the U.S. Marshals Service to investigate, said the noise of breaking the wall would have been deafening. But he thinks other inmates would have gladly made a lot of noise to drown out the sound.
"They will lure a guard into the laundry room and have all the dryers going," said Rollins, now retired, whose investigation is included in a book about Welch by Jack Burch and James B. King called "Ghost Burglar."
Not only that, but he said his investigation revealed that inmates had [b]hidden hacksaw blades in ceiling tiles and drill bits in bed frames.[/b]
"And [b]they used a vacuum cleaner motor to power the drill bit[/b]," he said. "These guys are really creative."
Rollins said it's likely Conley and Banks are still in the area. The vast majority of escapees don't stray too far, he said.
"They stay where they feel comfortable in that environment," he said.[/quote]
I wouldn't even be surprised if I see a movie based on that.
I'd probably go see it too.
[editline]20th December 2012[/editline]
Aww yeah, Eve of End of the world page king!
They say that the money they got from the robbery was never found and having things like 200 feet of sheets, drill bits, hacksaws, and a vaccum cleaner motor just screams that they had help from inside the jail to pull off the break out.
weather's gonna be fun
45 degrees and raining miserably most of the day, gonna drop below freezing and be heavy, wet snow by rush hour
yay I have 50 miles to drive home after work
Mmm yes I love this weather.
/sarcasm
THE END IS NEAR here in southeast Wisconsin.
snow hit heavy and wet now in Chicago, 2 hours ahead of forecasts. get to drive the whole way home at improbably slow speeds because everyone forgets how to drive when a snowflake falls on the windshield and blocks their view
Off to the gas station in this lovely weather?
Well, at least it finally snowed a bit
And I made it back, a ten minute trip took me an hour.
Oh hey, it's lightly snowing over here! It's about time!
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