(CBS) – First the deep freeze, and now, unfortunately, the flood.
Problems aren’t restricted to homes and businesses. Just walking down the street is no bargain as the thaw begins in earnest.
CBS 2’s Courtney Gousman reports.
Water-main breaks, falling ice, slush and puddles everywhere; now, city crews are working to keep the city from literally drowning in all this water.
The signs for pedestrians warn: Look out above.
Teresa Everly says she is more wary. But what fell from buildings in downtown Chicago on Friday looked more like slush.
Meanwhile, in the neighborhoods, walkers were stepping around puddles on the sidewalk. Most people opted not to wear their finest footware.
“It’s kind of like playing chess,” Simon Dickinson said in Logan Square.
Two hundred city snow plows were back out Friday, pushing leftover snow, as the city’s Water Management Department was out clearing the city’s catch basins so that the melting snow and rain have a place to go.
The city will be working through the night and tomorrow to clear these catch basins.
There are more than 250,000 across the city, and the department ask residents, if they are able, to clear the tops of the basins in your neighborhood.
Or, dial 3-1-1.
