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We as Chicagoans have forgotten when we used to have snow every year.   I mean real snow.  Not a dusting.  Not a few inches.  I mean a wall of snow everywhere.  On sidewalks, in shopping malls parking lots, down small claustrophobic side streets.

We had to always spend at least 15 minutes getting dressed.  Always wore the boots all winter.  Never without the necessary scarf, hat, and warm gloves.    We would have to allow special travel time just to trudge slowly through the crunchy snow, or the gray slush, or worse - the dreaded black ice.

This would start around Thanksgiving and last all the way through St. Patrick's Day.  People from other places, usually Hawaii and California, would always ask me about the weather.  How much snow did you get ?  How many degrees below zero was the temperature ? 

As I look at the white snowflakes fall on my face I think of the really bizarre long winters of past - that were way colder and much, much snowier.  It is January.   The days are getting longer.  Soon it will be March.  The Shamrocks are almost here.  Hooray.

We as Chicagoans have forgotten when we used to have snow every year.   I mean real snow.  Not a dusting.  Not a few inches.  I mean a wall of snow everywhere.  On sidewalks, in shopping malls parking lots, down small claustrophobic side streets.

We had to always spend at least 15 minutes getting dressed.  Always wore the boots all winter.  Never without the necessary scarf, hat, and warm gloves.    We would have to allow special travel time just to trudge slowly through the crunchy snow, or the gray slush, or worse - the dreaded black ice.

This would start around Thanksgiving and last all the way through St. Patrick's Day.  People from other places, usually Hawaii and California, would always ask me about the weather.  How much snow did you get ?  How many degrees below zero was the temperature ? 

As I look at the white snowflakes fall on my face I think of the really bizarre long winters of past - that were way colder and much, much snowier.  It is January.   The days are getting longer.  Soon it will be March.  The Shamrocks are almost here.  Hooray.

Byron, Josh & Mike of Chicago's (very successful) show Bye Bye Liver stopped by the studio. They're hard working young guys.. & they like to drink. You can hear it below..........

Barry is the owner of Tight Ship Records. A couple years ago, he brought his Dad to Chicago to record an album. That is a 2 sentence synopsis of one of the coolest stories I've ever heard. You can hear our talk below....

...............:V