MORGAN PARK — Paula Everett spent two-and-a-half hours in her car on Sunday morning battling a snowstorm as she returned from Michigan to her home on the far Southwest Side.
She wasn't about to get back into her vehicle when she went to visit her mother in the Smith Village Retirement Community later that afternoon. Instead, she put on her boots and walked the roughly 1-mile jaunt through Morgan Park.
Everett had a pleasant outlook as she clenched her hood below the neck to keep out the blowing snow.
"It really isn't so bad out here," she said, while wet, heavy snow piled on her shoulders.
Nearby, Joseph Knight, of Morgan Park, struggled to keep his snowblower from clogging as he cleared a path to his front door.
Knight wore cowboy boots while pushing his small, gas-powered snowblower through the accumulation.
"The snow doesn't get in these," he said, pointing to the boots that stretched up over his calf.
Spin outs and snowball fights were the rule of the day as a snowstorm that blanketed most of Chicago on Sunday morning and into the afternoon.
Fiana Cunnane, 5, of Morgan Park built a snowman on Sunday. With pine branches for arms and carrots for both its eyes and nose, she named her creation Aurora Rose - a nod to Disney's "Sleeping Beauty."
"We had our first snowball fight, too," said Stephanie Cunnane, Fiana's mom. "I taught her how to hide behind things to sneak attack."
Ald. Matt O'Shea (19th) said all available snowplows had been dispatched through the Department of Streets and Sanitation. Trucks are focusing on main roads but keeping up with the tireless snowfall has been a challenge.
"Our hope is the streets are clear for a safe rush hour in the morning," O'Shea said.
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