900 cars stranded on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive
Leaving never looked so good to Chicago’s longtime mayor Richard Daley, as the city starts to deal with the heat from hundreds of drivers who were stranded for up to twelve hours on Lake Shore Drive.
As one stranded driver, Don Levy, told a Sun Times reporter:
“I figured I’m going to die here. They tell you to stay in your car, and I’m running out of gas…It was like looking through a milkshake, a vanilla milkshake…It was nuts.”
Although the city shut the road winding along the shore of Lake Michigan down just before eight pm and “[more] than 130 firefighters were deployed to Lake Shore Drive, along with 30 firefighter medics on snow mobiles, and 100 Chicago police officers,” drivers waited for hours before help arrived.
Call it good old-fashioned Midwestern values that, while the city appeared asleep at the wheel, locals and drivers with supplies were freely lending a hand, a snack or a bottle of water to those in need.
Full story at Sun Times.
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