Goodbye Blizzard, Hello Below-Zero Temperatures
A wrap-up of the overnight storm, during which Naperville police officers got behind the wheels of borrowed trucks to rescue stranded motorists.
Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog in the world, did not get his time to shine in the Chicago area this morning. Maybe like the rest of us, his car was snowed in. The incessant snowfall during the last 24 hours surely distracted Midwesterners from Groundhog Day, as events focused on whether Phil would see his shadow Wednesday were canceled all over the area. But judging by conditions outside, there will be no early spring for Naperville. The city was actually on the low end of suburban snowfall totals from the overnight blizzard, according to the National Weather Service, which pegged inch counts for Naperville at 10.6. But a spotter in Downers Grove—just one town over—documented 21.1 inches of snowfall there. "The drifts make it…
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