Chicago’s Blizzard, Edited to 25 Seconds
Friday, 04 February 2011 | by Pat's Picks
We all saw those crazy photos of Lake Shore Drive strewn with abandoned cars in the wake of Chicago’s massive blizzard earlier this week. But this great time-lapsed video, shot from a suburban front yard, shows how quickly the snow piled up. The video’s director told the Tribune’s local edition that he set-up a hand-held camera in his kitchen to take a two-second video every five minutes. It’s pretty amazing to watch whatever that is in the foreground—a trashcan—get completely covered. Check it out: