“Instead of just building concrete walls, we can be thinking about how to regenerate the Lake Michigan shoreline so it gives something back to the Great Lakes,” Brammeier said. Lake Shore Drive remained closed Wednesday afternoon, as city workers continued removing stranded vehicles from the roadway in an effort to reopen the road as soon as possible. Joel Brammeier, the head of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, said the government has been working for decades on building barriers along the lakefront to cut down on flooding, but more needs to be done. Hold on to your hat The shot of Lake Shore. “We need barriers out in the lake to prevent the Northwest winds coming in,” he said. Some scenes from the Blizzard of 2011 in Chicago, This was shot at 9:20-9:30 pm on Tuesday February 1st, 2011. Things like: How do waves affect it? Is it more susceptible to flooding?Ĭhicago Mayor Richard Daley said last week the winds are a major concern. yesterday, is now cleared and open to traffic.Motorists who had to strand. Lake Shore Drive, which had 239 cars still stranded on it as of 5 p.m.
Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk are calling on federal agencies to look at the safety of Lake Shore Drive given its location next to Lake Michigan. The cleanup from the Blizzard of 2011 continues.
Hundreds of drivers got stuck in the snow there and eventually had to abandon their vehicles. In that blizzard, 23 inches were dumped in a day.Ĭhicago Public Schools announced that there was no school on Wednesday, the first time the city has had to call a snow day since 1999.There is a new focus on the safety of Lake Shore Drive and how Lake Michigan affects it after last week’s blizzard. This home was built in 1961 and last sold on for 525,000. single-family home is a 3 bed, 2.5 bath property. The last time that the city experienced a snowstorm of this magnitude was in 1967, the weather site added. 2011 Lake Shore Dr, Long Beach, IN 46360-1449 is currently not for sale. Categories: City of Chicago Notice, General. In some places around the city, the high winds created snow drifts as large as seven feet tall. NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE PHASE I STUDY: BELMONT AVENUE TO ADDISON STREET COMMUNITY MEETING. It is the third-most severe blizzard in the city’s history “and now ranks third among the greatest snowstorms in Chicago's history,” the report said. The National Weather Service says that the 2,000-mile-long storm stretching across North America is of “historic proportions.” Around Chicago, between 14 and 20 inches of snow have been dumped in the past day.Ĭhicago is a city that is used to snowstorms but this most recent one is nothing to sneeze at, Accuweather said. Rarely available high-floor southeast facing 1BD wi. They tell you to stay in your car, and I’m running out of gas,” he told the newspaper.Īccording to the newspaper, there were other motorists stranded several hours or for just as long as Levy was.Ī number of city buses have been rerouted away from the drive, the Chicago Transit Authority said. condo located at 3660 N Lake Shore Dr 2011, Chicago, IL 60613 sold for 221,000 on Aug 11, 2021. He said that officials told him to stay in his car but he wasn’t buying it. “It was nuts.” The newspaper also reported that as of Wednesday afternoon there were still around 300 vehicles stuck on the road. “It was like looking through a milkshake, a vanilla milkshake,” Don Levy, who was stranded on the drive for nine hours, told the Chicago Lake Shore Drive from another vantage point, on Feb. The Associated Press reported that between 700 and 900 cars were stranded for hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. Gusting winds and white-out conditions have paralyzed the city. Media photos taken of the drive show piles of snow enveloping an endless line of cars. “While we wanted to get to these people as quickly as possible, we wanted to get to them as safely as possible." “We know that hundreds of people were very inconvenienced, and we apologize for that,” he said in a statement. Residents slammed the city's response to the blizzard, even though Mayor Richard Daley’s Chief of Staff Ray Orozco apologized for the problems. City officials closed down the drive on Wednesday. 2640 Lake Shore Dr Unit 2011, Riviera Beach, FL 33404-4673 is currently not for sale. Several hundred people have been stranded on the drive, which runs near Lake Michigan.
The problems were due to the blizzard that descended upon the city of Chicago, according to media reports on Wednesday. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)Lake Shore Drive, a main artery for Chicago area traffic, became the site of a massive traffic jam on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lake Shore Drive: Cars sit in the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive after accidents and drifting snow stranded the drivers during last night's blizzard Februin Chicago, Illinois.