Seen mainly around fields, streams, and roads, these squirrel cousins feast mainly on grasses and other plants, as well as fruit and tree bark. While Phil's proponents maintain that his predictions are percent accurate, the U. In many years when Phil's predicted six more weeks of winter weather, February and March have turned out to be warmer than average.
But to obsess over the accuracy of Phil's predictions is to miss the point, Chapin said. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA in sent a letter to the president of the Inner Circle suggesting they retire Phil to a sanctuary and replace him with an electronic groundhog.
Chapin, the Punxsutawney Spirit editor and—journalistic objectivity be damned—an unabashed Punxsutawney Phil fan, dismissed PETA's letter as a publicity stunt. All rights reserved. Punxsutawney Phil. Not everyone finds the annual event entertaining, though.
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Snowdrifts reached as high as 10 feet; waves along the Lake Michigan shoreline got as high as 16 feet. Everything shut down — schools, colleges, government offices, businesses, bus lines, movie theaters, even funerals.
Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport shut down from 7 p. Dallas was battling the same weather pattern, too: For much of the week leading up to the game, the Packers and Steelers had to practice indoors because of ice storms and subzero temperatures in the Big D.
Large swaths of the freeway system were shut down by the storm as plows tried to keep up with the deluge. A few hours before his first State of the State message on Feb. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency. About members of the Wisconsin National Guard were sent out to rescue stranded motorists; several backups on I in Kenosha County left some drivers stuck in their cars for up to seven hours.
Shortly afterward, there were two more accidents just south of North Avenue. The accidents caused cars and buses to back up, and as the snow piled up, vehicles became immobilized and off-ramps became impassable. About cars were abandoned on Lake Shore Drive that night, after drivers spent hours sitting in their cars or walking around waiting to be rescued. The drive was closed for 33 hours. The storm set a record for snowfall over a hour period 20 inches and ended up being the third-heaviest snowstorm on record The Chicago Public Schools shut down, and businesses closed their doors early.
The Kennedy and Edens expressways ground to a halt, and what had been a minute ride to the junction at 2 p. Winds also blasted the city that day, with peak gusts of 70 miles per hour.
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