Articles filed under Weather
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Overnight snow might set February recordFeb 21, 2011 11:00 pm - As the last remnants of the Blizzard of 2011 were beginning to melt away, more snow overnight and expected later this week could cause a record from 1896 to fall. Bill ...
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IDOT: We were surprised by freezing rainFeb 21, 2011 12:00 am - A mixture of freezing rain and unprepared highway crews created chaos on roadways Monday night and caused a plane to slide off the runway at Chicago Executive Airport in...
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Upper Midwest faces dismal commute with stormFeb 20, 2011 10:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — A winter storm that blew through the upper Midwest over the long Presidents Day weekend coated roads with ice and snow and led airlines to cancel hundreds...
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Flood, winter weather advisories in effectFeb 20, 2011 12:00 am - The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for the Des Plaines and Fox rivers after an inch or more of rain fell in some areas Sunday with more precipitati...
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EGV did admirable job clearing streetsFeb 19, 2011 10:00 pm - I would like to disagree with the recent letter in Fencepost from Deb Jones of Round Lake concerning the snow removal in Elk Grove Village. I am a resident of the west s...
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No problem with snowy walks hereFeb 19, 2011 10:00 pm - Kudos to the Rolling Meadows Public Works Department. Once again they have outdone themselves! Not only did they get the snow plowed and salted down to the pavement duri...
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Arlington Hts. comes throughFeb 19, 2011 10:00 pm - Sunday after the blizzard, the Cook County road department replowed Euclid and placed so much snow on my parkway I could not see the red light on Wilke and Euclid and co...
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Rolling Meadows: The city that worksFeb 19, 2011 10:00 pm - Déjà vu again. 1967-1979 and etc. And our boys at the Rolling Meadows Public Works came through with flying colors. I am so proud to live in a city that really works. Ou...
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Schaumburg snow removal plan let us downFeb 12, 2011 10:00 pm - Schaumburg's snow removal plan was a disappointment. On Wednesday, I was very ill and needed to see a doctor, but plows hadn't entered our neighborhood and the village k...
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Palatine Twp. residents worked together during stormFeb 12, 2011 10:00 pm - On Feb 1st and 2nd (Tuesday and Wednesday) our area was hit by the third largest snowstorm on record receiving over 20 inches of snow with 50 mile per hour winds. The re...