Falling Ice

With the wind chill factored in, the temperature in Chicago today hovered around zero. I’ve been to the city often on business but never before today in the winter. Dozens of variants of signs like the one in my photo, warning pedestrians of ice falling from the skyscrapers, are scattered about on most of the sidewalk corners downtown.

I don’t recall seeing signs like these in New York. Are Gotham’s buildings better designed to prevent icy accumulation or does the city just not care?

A cabbie here in Chicago today swore to me that every year, at least one person is fatally trepanned by a falling icicle. What a way to go.