Winter Wonderland Challenge
By fishtiger58
@fishtiger58 (29820)
Momence, Illinois
February 6, 2016 7:58am CST
Alfredo Rossi has challenged us to post Winter Wonderland Photos. We have had a grand total of about 3 inches of snow here in the Chicago area. So I had to go look at my photos of winter from years gone by.
In 2011 we had a huge snow storm that shut down much of our area. My youngest son was attending Purdue University Calumet in Hammond Indiana. The school shut down for a week if I remember right. Many of the dorm kids were stuck at school with nothing to do. So a bunch of my sons friends and he decided to build an igloo. And a fine job they did, there were engineering students so it better be good lol. It was so strong 2 of the guys could stand on the top without breaking it. My son said it stood the rest of the winter.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
6 Feb 16
I won't post my 1/4 inch snow from a few weeks ago. LOL
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
LOL yea I'm afraid it would pale in comparison.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
6 Feb 16
@fishtiger58 I have photos in an album of 31 inches of snow - our last snow in 2001 before we moved south..that was enough for us.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill Yikes that's a ton of snow, I don't blame you in winter I often think of moving
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
I actually went to see it after the roads were cleared, it was pretty cool.
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@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
7 Feb 16
That is an impressive igloo. We built one when we were kids but we could not get the roof right, we were not engineers in training lol
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@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
8 Feb 16
@fishtiger58 NO , we were really good at walls but miserable at roofs lol more like a fort in the end.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Feb 16
We tried as kids as well, it was not a successful execution.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
8 Feb 16
@BelleStarr Yea that's all we ever got, walls.
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@simone10 (54187)
• Louisville, Kentucky
9 Feb 16
@fishtiger58 I'm sure it did. I'm surprised it didn't take longer than that.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
8 Feb 16
My son said it took them part of 2 days.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
9 Feb 16
@simone10 they were mostly engineering students, I think they had a point to make lol.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
I am not a lover of the beach, so I probably won't be joining that one.
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@JudyEv (342043)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Feb 16
@fishtiger58 Probably plenty of snowball fights. It seems no-one is ever too old for that.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Feb 16
I think it gave them something to do for a couple of days, I wonder what other mischief they got into,.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
7 Feb 16
Wow that is so cool, building an igloo. No snow here, I hope to visit snow and build a snow man. 
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
7 Feb 16
@fishtiger58 Definitely well built! Did they go inside the igloo too?
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Feb 16
They did a good job, it was well built.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Feb 16
@infatuatedbby yes they even built benches along the wall so you could sit down.
@slund2041 (3314)
• United States
8 Feb 16
What a cool Igloo. Thanks for sharing such a nice picture with us. It is not often I get a chance to see an Igloo. 
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
8 Feb 16
Me either, certainly not a well built igloo. It was pretty cool they even built benches along the wall inside. Those engineering students are so clever. My son however is currently getting his PhD in Astrophysics. The had fun building it.
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
I'm sure it did, I know my son told me but this was 4 years ago and my memory is not what it used to be.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
6 Feb 16
That is awesome, and what fun that must have bee,
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
No school for a week and stuck in the dorms, it was perfect.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Feb 16
yea I thought it was pretty cool, they had benches inside too.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
7 Feb 16
@fishtiger58 An igloo is every kid's dream!
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Feb 16
@DianneN I tried when I was young it was a pretty poor example.
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@just4him (317242)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
6 Feb 16
Three inches? Wow! We've got a lot more than that, and I will have a picture to show as soon as I get them back from Walgreen's. Your picture of the igloo is amazing. It shows a great deal of skill on the part of those who built it and to stand the entire winter shows it also stood the test of time. Great job to your son and his fellow students.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Feb 16
they had fun doing it and as they were stuck with no school they had nothing better to do.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
Thanks I went inside and they had built benches and stuff. It was pretty cool.
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
6 Feb 16
I live in the Chicago area, we rarely have droughts.
