Without a hint of irony, the Star Tribune today pegged the economic impact of the Minneapolis Super Bowl in 2018 between $80 million and $500 million. There’s no indication whether the calculation includes the impact of being portrayed as a winter hell hole between now and then.
Let’s step back a little bit, America. The NFL’s warm-weather choices haven’t been without problems. Read more →
At one point during the winter, we wondered whether all of the ice would ever leave Lake Superior. About 10 percent of the lake is still covered with ice, but the Coast Guard has ended its ice-breaking operations for the year. According to sources, summer is coming. Lake Superior Magazine has put together a time-lapse Read more →
Leif Enger, of Aitkin County, makes a great case for spring in all of its frustrating slowness.
In 1978, John Mercer at Ohio State University warned that rapid release of greenhouse gases posed the threat of disaster. He was right. Read more →
One of these days it would be fun to come up with other ways of measuring hail. Traditionally, it’s described as pea-sized (just heard the TV anchor warn Belle Plaine the peas are heading your way, by the way) , nickel-sized, golf-ball-sized or baseball-sized hail. We have a thing for food, money and sports in Read more →
A report on climate change suggests that the Upper Midwest stands to benefit. For now. Read more →
A southeasterly wind and breaking ice continue to plague a few homeowners on the west shore of Lake Mille Lacs.
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If I learned nothing else from my friends who fought the Red River in Moorhead, it’s this: during flooding, the enemy is inside your home.
Judging by the crowd in two separate hardware stores’ sump-pump sections this afternoon, I wasn’t alone in fighting the beast: the burned-out sump pump. Read more →
The world isn’t going to wait for the Federal Aviation Administration to come up with rules governing the use of drones, or — more accurately — quad copters. Read more →
You may recall the ice attack on the south shore last May. On Sunday the ice hit the northwest shore this time: U.S. Highway 169 just south of Garrison, Minn., thanks to 35 mph wind. Read more →
It isn’t really spring until the Madeline Island ferry makes its first run to Bayfield, Wis.
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The Minnesota Twins are working hard to get the snow off seats nobody will be sitting in for today’s doubleheader with the Toronto Blue Jays. Read more →
Ice out at Gooseberry Falls is a raging, violent affair. Just what the winter deserved. Read more →
A giant snowman in Gilman, Minn., is showing its age and is dying a hot death. Read more →
I really don’t have a comment other than to reinforce that you need to drink lots of green tea during this snowstorm.
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Bob Collins