Winter Def Con 4

**McFarkus** · 2nd February 11, 12:14 PM

Pictures from where I work (yeah, I was silly enough to go in to work today) on Argyle St. on the North Side of Chicago. These were taken around 11 am in a normally busy business district.

**auld argonian** · 2nd February 11, 12:25 PM

Hey, Mark...I see the parking boxes...two feet of snow, falling temperatures, public transit ground to a standstill...but don't forget to feed the meters!

For those outside of Chicago, this is a real sore spot for us. The city, in it's infinite wisdom, sold the rights to the parking meters off for some inadequate sum and for a period of 75 YEARS...dumb, huh? So now we have these boxes where you shovel in your money and they give you a little timed ticket to put on your dashboard. Wandering morons walk around checking the tickets and giving out parking tickets if they're expired...and the city enforces the tickets while the contractor gets the fines.

Your photos remind me of 1967, though...

Best

AA

**BoldHighlander** · 2nd February 11, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Hey, Mark...I see the parking boxes...two feet of snow, falling temperatures, public transit ground to a standstill...but don't forget to feed the meters!

For those outside of Chicago, this is a real sore spot for us. The city, in it's infinite wisdom, sold the rights to the parking meters off for some inadequate sum and for a period of 75 YEARS...dumb, huh? So now we have these boxes where you shovel in your money and they give you a little timed ticket to put on your dashboard. Wandering morons walk around checking the tickets and giving out parking tickets if they're expired...and the city enforces the tickets while the contractor gets the fines.

Yeah, we recently got some of those stupid boxes too!

**Bigkahuna** · 2nd February 11, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by McFarkus

Pictures from where I work (yeah, I was silly enough to go in to work today) on Argyle St. on the North Side of Chicago. These were taken around 11 am in a normally busy business district.

We got that beat in New York!

**WeaselMender** · 6th February 11, 09:20 AM

After a huge amount of toing and froing punctuated with an astonishing helping of dithering and hours of media coverage. in Pearland TX south of Houston we had (wait for it........) not even one paltry snowflake. Which goes to answer the question, what is an eight letter word for meteorologist, CLUELESS

Weasel :ootd: