re: Chicago right now

When the weather is bad its got to help with decreasing the murder rate there... right?

I mean folks dont want to stand around in that shite while waiting for a toddler to shoot.

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I had to look that up. Bruco would probably be in. Assuming we're talking about the Outer Banks, 6 hours.

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It's mid November man. What the hell did you expect to happen?

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Average high in Nov is 47. And I just hate cold and snow.

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He would talk about having to dodge ice falling off the buildings.

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I've seen some crazy shite like that downtown. A year or so ago I had a meeting at the John Hancock Tower and they had some of the entrances shut down because big chunks of ice were blowing off the building and slamming onto the sidewalk and street like little bombs.

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Here's the grim ticker of Chicago ice carnage from years past:

2011: Assisting a woman whose car window was smashed by falling ice, a paramedic is himself clocked in the kisser by an icicle plummeting from a skyscraper, possibly the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears building). A bystander reports that the man sustained a "severe gash to the head," although he later stabilizes in the hospital.

2010: A woman chatting outside the North Bridge Mall is felled by a speeding chunk of ice. Paramedics swath her head in bandages and pack her away to the hospital. Said a property manager at the mall: "We have our signs warning people but sometimes Mother Nature takes its course."

2008: Icicle gashes a pedestrian walking the Loop. Also, a large piece of ice plunging down from somewhere takes out the windshield of an SUV.

2006: Part of Michigan Avenue is closed to traffic after ice is seen falling from the Hancock Center. Closing streets is a common safety tactic by Chicago emergency officials trying to minimize injury from falling ice.

2000: Eight people go the hospital in one day getting on the wrong side of frozen, falling water. One man who cheated death/massive bruising was Sonny Skinner, who told the Associated Press after dodging a four-foot ice caber that he "cringed as shards of ice hit his legs, but then pulled his jacket over his head and ran."

1994: Donald Booth is waiting for a cab on Michigan Avenue when a hunk of ice the "size of a microwave" lands on his head, crushing his skull and spinal column. The 49-year-old man dies. His family later receives $4.5 million in a lawsuit against Neiman-Marcus, the tenant of the building from which the ice came.

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When the weather is bad its got to help with decreasing the murder rate there... right?

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No they kill to use the dead bodies for warmth

That snow is so racist

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Why are they worried about this weekend? Isn’t the verdict expected next week?

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It's expected next week but the prosecution was so god-awful that much of the Leftists in the media are already calling that Rittenhouse walks on the major charges (homicides) and the major charges are what the "justice" crowd want.

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can’t believe so many people have stayed in the godawful Midwestern climates for so long.

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Like the south is much better? We get

Rainy and cold without the winter precipitation.
Then a couple weeks of nice sunny spring weather
Then tornado outbreaks
Insufferable heat and humidity from May through September with hurricanes
About a month of nice dry cool fall weather
More tornado outbreaks
Rainy and cold