Here are a few more interesting items<\/A> from that winter. I was living in an appartment in Evanston and remember my car being frozen and immobile for at least a month. I think that must have been during this time:<\/P> “The poor weather continued for months. During January, the temperature went above freezing on only three days and then only for a few hours. On the 14th and 15th, a record-setting temperature of -19 degrees F occurred. February was bitter cold and had no temperatures above freezing until the 20th. Thawing weather didn’t arrive until March 18th!<\/EM>“<\/P> Check out the photo<\/A> of the elevated train coming into the Davis St station. That was a few stops north of the South Blvd station<\/A> where I lived. I didn’t actually live in the station<\/A> but the tracks ran right behind my apartment building. I remember the plywood snowplows they built onto the front of the trains. After a few days they started splintering and falling apart. It just added to the look of destruction that was all around the city that winter.<\/P> Any Chicagoans should check out this site<\/A> as it has some really neat old photos of the elevated system in Chicago.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are a few more interesting items from that winter. I was living in an appartment in Evanston and remember my car being frozen and immobile for at least a month. I think that must have been during this time: … Continue reading
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