Snow what?

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HeatherLeigh — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:49:20 GMT

we have big fat snowflakes folks...yay!

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HeatherLeigh — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:53:18 GMT

saw some slushy rain today...could it be coming?

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eleanor — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:48:46 GMT

"what a job...can I be wrong 50% of the time and still keep my job?"

Maybe if you are in software development or project management! ;p

In project management courses, they usually tell you that roughly 50% of projects are incorrectly estimated.

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HeatherLeigh — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:24:08 GMT

Marcus-it got cold and windy. I worked in a building at the windiest intersection in the city (Jackson and Wabash) and remember having to hold on to a light pole one windy slick night.

Rich- went to high school in Glen Ellyn, but when I lived there as an adult, I ended up in River West (as you might expect, just west of the loop by the river---Chicago and Halstead). I had THE COOLEST loft apartment ever! Had to give that up to come to Microsoft. So you must have been near the Wrigley building. I was in the CNA building (red building), so I always looked forward to Taste of Chicago because it was pretty much across the street from my office.

Jeff-I remember talking about and wishing for snow days when I was in school (I was in jr. high and high school in Illinois), but I don't actually remember us actually getting any. It was like an urban legend.

Ah well, our snow didn't happen last night (like I said, they weather folks are often wrong), but possible today.

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Jeff Parker — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:32:27 GMT

Heh, I have to laugh because I know just what you mean. I am right in that huge lake effect snow line from Chicago to Traverse City. Unfortunately we are so used to it we just do not get snow days anymore. I laugh though because I went to visit my sister one year for Christmas in North Carolina, they got a half inch of snow. The whole area seems to shut down. Cars in the ditches, utter chaos.

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RIch Dudley — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:15:56 GMT

Or Pittsburgh! 20 degrees F and 4" of snow on Thanksgiving, 60 degrees F yesterday.

Heather--what part of Chicago? My folks moved to Deerfield when I was in college. Thankfully I had to memorize the Great Lakes and US Presidents in elementary school, or I'd never be able to navigate downtown! I worked for a summer on Hubbard, which was an awesome location--just a few blocks from everytning (including the Billy Goat--cheezborger, nofrieschips).

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Marcus — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:14:02 GMT

Yea, I'm realizing more and more that no one else quite knows the extremes of weather as well as someone from Chicago.

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Raymond Chen - MSFT — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:21:19 GMT

The problem is that if you have highway divider bumps (aka Bots Dots) you can't have snowplows because they would just dig up all the dots! (Unless you spring for the more expensive recessed dots, which Seattle doesn't.) Seattle is the only city I know that has both bumps and snow, and it suffers from the combination.