2-2 - BLIZZARD YES!!!! - We really got it - Continued to snow all night and until about 10:00 am - I planned to get out early but the wind was still gusting - I understand we had gusts as high as 50 mph - at the lake front they had gusts as high as 70 mph - they had a couple of of minor accidents along northbound Lakeshore drive one of which involved an articulated bus that jack knifed and blocked all lanes - traffic came to a complete stop - heavy snow and high winds slowly filled in between cars - EVERY THING was slowly buried trapping hundreds of cars. - there are still more than 100 cars waiting extraction - I understand there was a total snowfall of 20.2" making the accumulation the 3rd highest in the history of Chicago - I finally was able to get out and start shoveling about 10:00 am - the entire neighborhood turned out to help each other with snow blowers and shovels - we were all dug out by late afternoon then they started a fire in one of those "fire pit things" broke out the hot dogs etc and had a picnic - the kids were having a ball and the adults enjoyed watching them frolic in the deep snow piles - we are now to get a couple of days of near 0º and then back to normal - we will leave on sunday (2-6) to go up to the UP of Mi. for 6 days of X-C skiing with the EBC bike club - the Blizzard was quite an experience.