Route 45 ‘a killer’

John Shields can attest to how bad the roads were Tuesday night in Lake County.

Shields was delivering pizzas for Bill’s Pizza in Mundelein, and made his last stop at 9 p.m.

“It was so bad. You’d be driving on parts of the road that were not lit up and you couldn’t see anything. (Route) 45 was a complete whiteout. I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Shields said.

Traveling on Route 45 was “a killer, I didn’t think I’d make it back,” he said. The lanes on the roadway were covered with deep snow, he added.

“The last delivery, I got stuck in a huge drift. It was so deep, I couldn’t open (car) door. I kept rocking it back and forth, but it wouldn’t move, so I opened the window and climbed out the window ala Dukes of Hazard. It was not pretty when you’re as big as me,” he said.