Metro Chicago, IL Lake Effect Extreme Winds And Blowing Snow - 2/15/2021

A narrow, but potent lake effect snow band affected the Chicago Metropolitan Area with moderate snowfall rates and strong winds combining to create blizzard conditions along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Shot List:
Shots 1-16 - Lake effect snowfall with strong winds creating whiteout blizzard conditions at Fullerton Avenue and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois.
Shot 17 - Drifted in cars parked at Touhy Avenue Beach in Chicago, Illinois.
Shots 18-20 - Sheridan Road blizzard conditions in Evanston, Illinois.
Shot 21 - Snow brush at work at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Shots 22-23 - Illinois Tollway plow trucks working in tandem along Interstate 94 during lake effect snowfall near Lake Forest, Illinois.
Shot 24 - Chicago Streets And Sanitation plow clearing portions of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois.
Shots 25-26 - Vehicles and a semi truck struggling to advance along the Edens Expressway in Chicago, Illinois.
Shots 27-29 - Various plow trucks at work throughout the Chicago Metropolitan Area.
Shots 30-32 - POV driving shots of heavy snowfall occurring along the northbound Edens Expressway in Chicago, Illinois.
Shots 33-36 - Snow covered vehicles parked in Evanston, Illinois during lake effect snowfall.

[@greatpix]

Brings back fond memories of my childhood in Detroit and the Winters there.

[@WarHawk-]

Guy IS freezing while walking his St. Bernard at 1:19 and the dog is saying . . . yes, Yes, YESSS!!

[@patriciahall2223]

Wow that looks nasty , the winds are brutal , stay safe 🇨🇦

[@richardbailey5667]

0:10 yessssss flash back in the whole decade of 70's, lately winter here in mich is flat lined. Today in mich 2/16/2021 it FINALLY snowed 6" - 10" wheeewww.

[@codeyford9428]

looks cool whiteout

[@Scratchync]

Yikes!! I don't miss that!!! 😱💙😱💙

[@MaxBeecher]

Should come out to the burbs. We got 6ft snow drifts in some spots

[@kristinnunez2702]

NWS Chicago is saying that for some local spots who get Lake Effect along with system snow it will be up to 20 inches when all is said and done. Like the groundhog day blizzard 🥶

[@greatpix]

I can relate to the guy with two cameras hanging off of him. Up until it got too painful for me to walk you’d see me out in the worst Winter weather with my tripod, 4:30am, in the freezing cold taking pictures for 5 hours.

[@tammiep9628]

That is bad!! I hope we don’t get it next. It will have to come across lake Michigan. I hope it dissipates!😳

[@joeknowz4898]

We're 12 miles from the lake and we go 12 inches ( Harlem and Irving ).....6 miles east of O'hare and the only record 9 inches...Midway recored 17.7 ....

[@elainebmack]

Lake effect snow combined with high winds is truly intense!

[@kyleebrock]

Meanwhile in Texas... End of the world!

[@codeyford9428]

those snow rates had to be pushing 3 inches an hour

[@ramonaragondiaz9258]

We got 18 inches here by Midway

[@adelmafilmesyt8504]

Wow Hello Hello dear my Friends

[@Hurricane0721]

Being on the west side of Lake Michigan, Chicago normally doesn’t get a lot of lake effect snow, unless you get a persistent northeast wind off the lake like with this storm. That’s some of the worst lake effect snow I’ve ever seen anywhere on the Great Lakes! Those drivers are crazy! I wouldn’t be driving in conditions like that unless I absolutely had to.

[@JB0010]

Got to get to work one way or another homie

[@mariaborja4301]

Encredible párese el polo Nord!Señor salva los Estados Unidos dal frio desde Italia❤

[@RoadieShow]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🥶

[@carennorthcutt7724]

I saw snow coming down fast last night in Cincy, but it wasn't going sideways.....

[@daphlavor]

Your highness, there’s nothing more we can do tonight, the shield doors must be closed.

[@kenevanchik4478]

I thought they smelled bad on the outside...

[@scottnyc6572]

Dark Winter has arrived!!☠️

[@justdrive5327]

1 week later, its already spring in Chicago. 50 degrees highs

[@scottnyc6572]

Lake effect snow is so intense!! Guy is walking with no gloves on...

[@peterpp306]

STORM?😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@hatemhatem9064]

لا إلهَ إلاّ الله ♥محمد رسول الله ♥سبحان الله العظيم. قادر على كل شيء قدير

[@DD-bn2mx]

strange how these films are so interesting, lol

[@Saint696Anger]

Perfect time to go out and get DQ blizzards 😂 why do people go out and do that?

[@cfwin1776]

Chicagoans: we are tough. We can handle the weather. Texans: no power, no water, water pipes bursted, icicle in the living room. Our Republican governor is making the state great again.

[@LutherS2186]

What do Greta Thunberg and her Extinction Rebellion climate change (global warming) supporters say about this?

[@mhay2290]

Probably the same thing that people who eat every day say about world hunger