Falling Ice

So I was in Chicago this week doing training at a client site with one of the other trainers based out of Dallas. We were walking back to the hotel from the client site and spotted a sign in front of a jewelery store that said "Caution - Falling Ice". Neither of us being indigenous to a big city in a cold climate - we thought this was rather odd. Maybe it was an advertisement for a jewelry sale - maybe they had ice pellets sometimes drop from above - we didn't know what to make of the sign, so I had Heather stand beside it and I took a picture. (Wouldn't it be nice if I could display it here - email from phone is not working.)

It turns out this is actually a dangerous thing - BIG CHUNKS of ice falling off of high-rise buildings and hitting people in the head. A guy apparently got killed 12 years ago by a piece of ice from the Nieman Marcus building. The things you learn in a new city. By the way - I would never ever want to live in Chicago. The high temp one day while we were there was 9* and they don't call it the windy city for nothing.