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The Minnesota Department of Transportation today released this video showing a pileup on I-35 south of Faribault on Tuesday.
It’s not pretty because it captures us at our driving worst. Read more →
Roger Hanson is the kind of guy who can make you root for a relentless and bitter cold snap. Read more →
Roger Hanson was well along in his city-subsidized effort to build an ice tower in Superior today. Things were looking good and tourists were stopping to take a look, just as the city had hoped. Read more →
Jimmy didn’t see his shadow, which isn’t surprising since Jimmy looked for it before the sun was up far enough to cast shadows this morning. Read more →
A couple of things here. First, tuition at Harvard is $58,607 a year.
Second — and really, more important — remember all that chatter about how East Coast cities don’t know what to do in blizzards. Read more →
The big storm in Massachusetts has rekindled an old debate. Read more →
The snow hadn’t even started falling yet in the northeast’s ‘historic’ snowstorm when Minnesotans and other Midwesterners were taking to Twitter to joke about the East’s ignorance of what to do when it snows. Read more →
North Dakota has the dirtiest snow in America, according to researchers.
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Today’s evidence of the devolution of the American boy comes from the Boston Globe, which today reports a disturbing fashion trend among boys who want to look cool at this time of the year: shorts. Read more →
The corporate parent of the Mankato Free Press has ordered all reporters and photographers to wear ice cleats in winter weather, Jim Romenesko reports. Read more →
A good person has to feel for Linda Bowar of Rochester, who did something about the fact that there are too many kids without appropriate winter gear for Minnesota’s dark months. Or, at least, she tried to do something.
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Nathan Ziegler, the Twin Cities teacher who got plenty of international attention last week for his video of a frozen trampoline, has doubled down. Read more →
Nick Ziegler has provided plenty of videos on YouTube experimenting with ways to take advantage of the cold. He calls it the Minnesota Cold Channel.
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We can argue all day about the value of the wind chill number until we’re blue in the bare skin, but there’s no doubting this advisory number now dictates how we live our lives. It’s instant drama in an industry that requires drama.
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