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Giving up on shoveling out cars

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 4, 2019, 9:37 AM Mar 4, 2019
4 Comments

We have reached the point of winter where some people just give up. Like, perhaps, this person in Minneapolis who has parked his/her car and has gone the full camouflage route. Read more →

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Minnesotans keep hitting snowplows

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2019, 1:32 PM Mar 1, 2019
6 Comments

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is running out of ways to get through to Minnesota drivers about how to drive in winter, and it’s not as if the department isn’t trying. Today, another snowplow got hit, this time near Brandon, Minn. Read more →

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How a Bemidji man got stuck on a lake in a blizzard

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 1, 2019, 8:59 AM Mar 1, 2019
20 Comments

Allen Foster, of Bemidji, says he was too excited to get on Lake of the Woods after getting off work. He never checked the weather, he tells the Bemidji Pioneer, which also has video of the dilemma. Read more →

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As torturous month concludes, math provides hope

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2019, 8:39 AM Feb 28, 2019
37 Comments

There’ll be no snow today so we can take a few hours to gather our thoughts and prepare to survive the torture of a few more inches tomorrow. And have you heard it’s going to get ridiculously cold again? Of course you have. Otherwise you wouldn’t be out on that ledge. Read more →

Economy · Weather

A blizzard, a roof collapse, and a MN family is out of the dairy business

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2019, 7:18 AM Feb 27, 2019
29 Comments

These are tough times in the dairy business, particularly for small operations. But the fact a livelihood is destroyed so quickly by a month of snow reveals the precipice on which many farmers stand. Read more →

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They don’t call them Great Lakes for nothing

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2019, 1:51 PM Feb 26, 2019
4 Comments

Can your summer do this?
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Hey, Minnesota: Why do we live here?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2019, 10:39 AM Feb 26, 2019
68 Comments

Winter is our meteorological purification. So I squint as I look in the backyard. I can almost see July. And it is good. Read more →

Weather

Betrayed by GPS, trucker gets stuck on Lake Minnetonka

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2019, 8:34 AM Feb 25, 2019
20 Comments

This update from Lake Minnetonka: the ice on Carson’s Bay is safe for whatever you’ve got in mind. Read more →

Weather

The urge to get home meets a blizzard

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2019, 7:09 AM Feb 25, 2019
45 Comments

If weatherpeople gave us a three-day warning about a blizzard (they did), and authorities told drivers in southern Minnesota to stay off the road (they did), why were so many people stranded and had to be rescued by first responders who had to assume the risk of doing so?
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Snow removal crews are people too

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 23, 2019, 6:50 PM Feb 23, 2019
2 Comments

Lee Sjolander, the official police chief of NewsCut City, issued a call to the people of Kenyon on Saturday that should be amplified to every city: Give the snow removal people a break.
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Weather

Now playing: the MnDOT ballet

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 22, 2019, 7:00 AM Feb 22, 2019
18 Comments

Like the cavalry rescuing the town under siege, MnDOT has been given a hero’s response on Twitter after posting this video of a team of plows tackling I-694 in Maplewood this week. Read more →

Weather

Endless snow sparks sidewalk wars

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 21, 2019, 12:56 PM Feb 21, 2019
96 Comments

Maybe there’s a property line there somewhere and these rules of boundaries must be followed.

Or you can forget that we’ve reached the end of the “isn’t it pretty?” season and the fact the ongoing snow is now bringing out the worst in us and shovel the sidewalk.
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Weather

Clueless drivers are a menace to the state’s snowplower operators

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 21, 2019, 10:07 AM Feb 21, 2019
25 Comments

We are intrigued by the self-restraint shown by Minnesota’s and Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation to try to find s Read more →

This or That · Weather

(Snowball) Fight!

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 21, 2019, 7:10 AM Feb 21, 2019
30 Comments

We are through one round of the great Twin Cities snowball challenge and, so far, St. Paul is wiping its snow-clogged streets with the spiffy neighbor. Read more →

Education · Weather

Snow way: This Mpls. principal rode his bike to school

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 20, 2019, 11:58 AM Feb 20, 2019
10 Comments

If the school principal can ride a bike to school, calling it off isn’t a good decision.
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