#chicago cold

[unladyboss]

COLD IN CHICAGO. FILMING THE BEAR

Corey Hendrix gave insight into how cold it still is in Chicago

He rushed to his ride

His umbrella against the wind

Convinced it was going to storm

He got in there so fast

He's a Chicago native and it always gets them too how cold it is

[deadinchicago]

17 October - Frozen to Death

The deep freeze is coming. Photo source.

With the cold starting to creep in, it’s natural for us today to start turning on the central heating, or in older buildings start up the radiators. Keeping the ice at bay is something we have all struggled with at some point, but perhaps not quite in the same way as these Chicagoans.

It was nearly Christmas, and so Scanislaw Cacocz went out to get presents for his five children. That’s at least what he told his children and his wife, though we’ll never know if he actually meant to get presents or not. What we do know is that instead of shopping (or maybe just after shopping) Cacocz found his way to a saloon not far from his house. He stayed there until the early hours of Christmas morning, and then drunkenly endeavoured to find his way him.

Instead, Cacocz stumbled around the streets, crawling upon the sidewalks raised above street level. As he searched for his home, he found himself falling from the sidewalk, receiving a few bruises and a nasty cut just over his eyebrow. Cold, drunk, and unsure where he was, Cacocz then crawled under the sidewalk to try to keep warm.

There, he drunkenly fell asleep and froze to death. It wasn’t until his worried wife inquired at the police station the next day, her children saddened that Father Christmas hadn’t shown that morning, that his body was found.

In Elgin, Walter Brennan had been missing for months. He’d disappeared one day from work, and while people searched for him no one could find him. It wasn’t until the next February, 1948, that he was finally found, frozen in the ice of a millrace. He’d somehow fallen off a ledge while at work and was dragged into the swirling water, then frozen into it sometime that winter.

Sometimes, pure accidents with ice could cause death. Timed just when the practice of taking ice blocks from lakes in winter and using them for cooling in summer was starting to fall out of practice, Gottlieb Natke was walking down the street carrying a 100 lb block of ice. Being that it was February, there was still plenty of ice on the ground. Natke stepped on the wrong spot on the sidewalk and found himself falling to the ground. The giant block of ice he carried came with him, fracturing his skull and killing him.

Happy October 17th, and be careful of the cold.

[peytondawn]

Bored, cold, and can't sleep. Also I don't know if it's just me but it's starting to get slow and dead on here.

[emzajex]

CHICAGO IS COLD TODAY