DISQUS

Snark · 3 years ago

If you're driving home from session and reading the interweb it's probably not the weather's fault that your car ended up in the ditch.

Judy, Judy, Judy · 3 years ago

Rich,

Thanks so much for posting this information on your website. It's great!

anon · 3 years ago

Regarding Idot's road conditions. I would advise motorists to avoid all Idot routes with this storm approaching. They are in bad shape.(undermaned)

Buck Flagojevich · 3 years ago

Rod doesn't have to worry about travel conditions. Does he?

observer · 3 years ago

Anon,
None of the IDOT employees who were let go in the material re-organization were highway maintainers. And it would appear that the jobs of those who were are getting done without those positions being refilled.

Shallow Pharnyx · 3 years ago

Drove from Oak Brook to Springfield- left around 4:30 pm, it started to get bad in Bloomington.

Larry McKeon · 3 years ago

Downtown Springfield in total blackout at 2:36 am. sidestreets nearly impassible. All United flights out of Springfield cancelled until mid-afternoon. supposed to be in Washington DC for big dinner tonight. Ain't gonna happen.

Larry McKeon · 3 years ago

If you have a good UPS make sure modem and monitor are plugged into UPS and you can get on internet for limited time. My UPS should run for about two hours.

Larry McKeon · 3 years ago

Things you can do with UPS (universal power supply) during blackouts.

I have three. One large one for small local area network. Computer, monitor and DSL modem still running after about two hours.

A medium sized UPS lasted just long enough to brew a pot of coffee. Now charging on car's 115 volt inverter.

Small UPS running AM/FM radio with weather band and CD player.

By the way, set power on computer to laptop settings to reduce power consumptions so disk drive and monitor will hibernate after five minutes or so of non-use. I think I might get three or for hours of operation.

coinkydink? · 3 years ago

Legislators end veto session and Springfield gets a massive snow job.

Yo! · 3 years ago

When can we expect our FEMA checks?

Anon · 3 years ago

Rich, I'll go your cracked trees one better, the ComEd transformer in the alley behind my house exploded a little while ago. Power went out but came back on about a minute later.

The transformer is right next to a school yard. I called 911, who just told me to call ComEd. I told them they had a potential public safety problem but they didn't care.

ComEd (once I got through the automated system) gave me the standard "we'll get someone out to look at it."

Reddbyrd · 3 years ago

Did anyone in the workforce make to work?
Bet the blogosphere will be a little empty today.

STATE EMPLOYEE · 3 years ago

To Reddbyrd, I went to work and was turned away at the door by some rent-a-security guard that doesn't know our Department's own emergency policy. Sweet, I get a three day weekend, but will have to put in a time off slip on Monday.

Ravenswood Right Winger · 3 years ago

off topic-rich can you provide the roll call voters for the House & Senate on the 7% Cook County property tax cap legislation?

ArchPundit · 3 years ago

This is the first major outage in which I didn't lose power. It sounds like Springfield is worse than St. Louis, though it's not very good here. Pulling into the parking lot this morning, most of the cars are here from the night before.

And Larry McKeon is absolutely correct, I lost a power source and motherboard to the last storm because I didn't have a UPS---not only can you power small things--it saves things plugged in when the power surges.

Diane · 3 years ago

We're out of power as are hundreds of 1000's here in the St. Louis metro area. This is the second major power outage in 5 months. Somehow the deep cold may be worse than the July heat. Time to start burying those electric lines.

Link · 3 years ago

Rich,

Did you notice that the IDOT State Highway Map site is "sponsored by Best Western ("Sponsor of the 2005-2006 Official Illinois State Highway Map")?