Bob Collins‘Winterfest’ on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin, was closer to ‘PhysicsFest’ over the weekend.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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If there’s one story today to warm the heart of an old hockey player, it’s MPR reporter Dan Kraker’s story about the hockey players who still play in outdoors rinks.
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Like an old, punch-drunk fighter, Minnesota showed it still has got it when it comes to handling blizzards. We weren’t all that sure we still knew how to handle a good blow, what with never getting big snowstorms anymore, but this morning we’re resuming normal routines with a minimum of fuss. Read more →
A Minnesota native has pretty well killed the ‘niceness’ image that locals may have had in the nation’s capital. Read more →
Sure, the airports were closed, people who didn’t pay attention to the forecast got stuck for 24 hours on a highway, and nobody in the neighborhoods of New York has a prayer of getting their cars unstuck today.
But, the East Coasters are having fun with winter. Read more →
How long would we last if there were actually real disruption and chaos? Read more →
It’s nothing personal, East Coast. It’s just us trying to have a laugh now that you get all of the fun these days. Read more →
The tweet from the Ontario Provincial Police struck a nerve with people who’ve apparently seen plenty of people driving like this. Read more →
You couldn’t have asked for more miserable weather than the Arctic blast that’s gripped us over the last few days. Which is why the people of Duluth have exclusive bragging rights for being ‘real’ Minnesotans when it counted most. Read more →
For many people in the East Metro, commuting to work means taking a deep breath and doing this: trying to cross the St. Croix by the ‘ice road.’ Read more →
Once Minnesota becomes the place where it’s not cold enough to do stuff, what’s the point of being Minnesota? Read more →
Wired profiles photographers Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber, a husband-and-wife team from Minneapolis that stumbled on the sport a few years ago.
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We’re not sure this is the most efficient way to shovel snow, but this video from Montreal (which is pretty good at getting rid of the stuff) nonetheless confirms that many of us in flyover country aren’t approaching the task with the kind of enthusiasm we could. Read more →
Roger Hanson, the Big Lake, Minn., man who builds giant ice towers, is having a bit of a time in his second season in Superior, Wisc.
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Every year around this time, the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival gets is underway in China, which causes the rest of us to wonder whether we’re doing winter right. Read more →