Chicago/Gary winter storm

Anyone in or near the Chicago/Gary 'blizzard'?
I'm 150 miles SE in Indiana and it's only beginning here.
Supposedly up to 8 inches south of the lake and blowing with freezing mists this morning across the 80/94, 30mph and gusts around 50+.
I gotta go downtown on Kedzie a few miles off the 57/94 interchange.
Where are you?
How's the roads?
Winds bad?
Are you even moving?
State roads 5 and 9 are questionable, I69 still moving okay. A couple inches already and more to come, and 30+ winds with gusts up around 40.

 

Yesterday at the Sams DC at 3pm, I pulled up both of these images online. I was heading to Chicago from east of Indy at SR9 and I70 with and empty dry van, not a reefer. One fuel tank because the right one leaks when over 3/4 full, and two PID messages on the dashboard yesterday. The first image is Chicago, the second where I was.
It was head north and a bit east to wait it out at home 2 hours away, where it was to hit least, or use up my last five daily hours to head west to Indy then I65 trying for downtown Chicago with an empty, and either staying at the drop point, (almost certainly - if I made it) or trying to bobtail to the rail yard where I couldn't break or stay. And going west I would have headed into those rains during sunset and temps dropping toward freezing and 30mph winds. With five hours to drive what takes almost five in good weather.
I'd have probably made Remington, IN most likely before stopping and checking radar and seeing that is was worse in Chicago, and only going to get windier and colder. Instead I got home and saw it on radar here.
And this way I get a reset and don't have to worry about having only nine hours on my 70 until Wednesday am stuck up in Chicago fighting for a hole to hide in and blowing my Monday pickup for a new customer. Now that rail load waits a day, and I instead will probably pick up at the new customer in southern Indiana Monday evening and deliver it to the same rail yard, bit of luck. There I can pick up that delayed one going to a buffer warehouse in Ohio. All on full hours instead of waiting until Wednesday for hours.

 

lol
And this bit of news made me really glad I didn't go into Chicago, let alone try to bobtail either.

The winds have already been noteworthy today -- at 12:25 p.m. a wind registering 63 miles per hour was measured at the Harrison-Dever Crib in Lake Michigan off the city of Chicago. Winds measuring 60 m.p.h. in Gary and 54 m.p.h. in Hinsdale were also reported this afternoon, according to ChicagoWeatherCenter.com.

Hinsdale is on I294 about five or ten miles from the rail yards where I was to bobtail to if I made it downtown first to drop that empty.
And of course I have to go through Gary.

Oh, and,

The roof of Skyline Stage at Navy Pier was blown off its frame due to extremely high wind gusts on Sunday. No injuries were reported. (Nancy Stone/ Chicago Tribune)

 

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news&id=7839213
Sounds like I did the right thing. I wish I could get cable tv on my truck. Or local television stations. I have to settle for website updates like these to reassure myself I did the right thing.
Might get another 4 inches here, with 40+ gusts until Monday pm.
Chicago and Gary are verboden until at least Tues am, and then late am at that.
Hope we can find a refer to trade in Indy and get that new customer's load picked up Monday pms. I can then amble northward rather lazily, getting it off the customer's hands at least.
Depends on conditions here and southerly through Indy. Indy is going to be messy though, and windy as well, 30s and higher gusts, but constantly windy.
Might be here until Tuesday am no matter what. Right now I'd not move from here unless a building or nearby truck caught fire. Not until daybreak, and I doubt then.
Right now all I see are an occassional set of lights going by at what seems slow rates. Nothing moving locally at all, except a slowly slowing truck into the lot as it fills up. IN 5 is not fit for a truck.
Winds are wild. Constant and strong, with sudden gusts. Snow blowing and adding up. Good three inches already filling all the nooks and crannies and keeping the road covered down here anyway. Can't see the interstate surface, it goes over here.