JEFF FLOCK, CNN CHICAGO BUREAU CHIEF: I want to get to another perspective on that, and that is with regard to the folks on the roads. I've got a man from the AAA Chicago Motor Club, who tells me -- you set a record of your own this December, yes?</s>CHARLES ALLEN, AAA CHICAGO MOTOR CLUB: Yes, roughly -- we've been up in terms of our calls about 150 percent from last year.</s>FLOCK: How do you account for that?</s>ALLEN: Well, we account for the early snow season, one; and it's been a lot of calls regarding flat fires to stalled vehicles to locking the keys in the car, things of that nature.</s>FLOCK: Yes, now look over here -- it's like, if you're able to move around this here -- you see one of these cars here: This is obviously one. Not only that, the poor guy got a ticket too.</s>ALLEN: Yes, and that he did. We are actually seeing a lot of this sort of thing: People have had to come out -- due to shoveling their car, they locked their keys inside the car, and things of that nature.</s>FLOCK: Not a good December so far in Chicago, Charles Allen, AAA Chicago Motors Club. Commissioner, thank you. Snow nothing big and new in Chicago, but it just keeps coming. When we're done today, they say this could make -- the snowfall today could make this the snowiest December in Chicago history. We'll keep watching it, as the Northeast prepares. I'm Jeff Flock, CNN, reporting live, from the Lakefront in Chicago.</s>ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you, Jeff.
AAA Chicago Motor Club Employee Discusses Winter and Cars