12/11/2010 Minnesota Snow storm

[tricksterpup]

Well folks if you have seen the news, at Mpls, the Metro Dome collapsed due to the snow. Well I was out in that exact snow storm taking public transportation. While I was out at Petco to get Mealworms for my Geckos and Rodent food for my mice, they stopped transportation.
I started to walk home about a 5 mile walk, another man joined me and we walked down a main street to head to where we needed. Well, it wasn't that cold out (if properly dressed) but it was windy and snowy. A kind man picked us up and gave us a ride near our destinations. It was very nice of him.


This woman was about 100 feet away from me.

This was a very common sight.

The blowing snow

 

[tricksterpup]

Now the best part of this photo is, the SUV that was facing the camera could not move. See that pile of snow in front of it. That is the street. A plow pushed the snow off the side and blocked in many of the side streets. This woman couldnt figure out how to get out of the snow. Many people were facing the same dilemma.

Like I said, it was fun to be out but if you were not prepared, look out.

 

[Nanci]

Never again!!! Getting the hell out of there was worth every penny of my 30% pay cut. I'm going to bookmark this, and every time I wonder if I might regret leaving my home, job, family and friends just a teeny bit, this will remind me of how much I hate winter.

Nice pics!

 

[alan]

Isn't Minnesota ready for that kind of thing?

 

[tricksterpup]

Isn't Minnesota ready for that kind of thing?

Alan, in the past 10 years, we have had mild, under average snow winters. Many of the people have forgotten and many of the younger adults never had to deal with Winters this bad as drivers.

 

[Rich Z]

Amen, Nanci. I would be perfectly happy to go the rest of my life and NEVER see another snow flake.

 

[alan]

Sounds like you're in the same boat as us in Virginia. Nobody knows how to deal with it.
I really meant things like equipment and plowing procedures from the municipalities. Maybe since there hasn't been much snow they've shifted their budget?

 

[tricksterpup]

Sounds like you're in the same boat as us in Virginia. Nobody knows how to deal with it.
I really meant things like equipment and plowing procedures from the municipalities. Maybe since there hasn't been much snow they've shifted their budget?

Alan,
This kept on coming down. We got around 20 inches here. It was non stop with lots of blowing wind. Heck,, its still drifting here. At 4 pm it was official, public transportation was closed, Mall of America was closed around 6ish. Many stores closed early in the area. I was next to a kinkos and they were closed when some man was trying to use the Fed Ex.
I was out in it pretty much from noon to about 5 and it was a white out for the entire time. Plows were just pushing snow and it wasn't helping. Now today is the day for removal.

 

[alan]

I was out in it pretty much from noon to about 5 and it was a white out for the entire time.

That's what I do, I love being out in that stuff. I hope you don't get a lot of people getting hurt, that's a lot of snow.
We had two like that last winter, everything stopped! We just don't have the equipment to deal with it, it takes a long time to clear things.

 

[Nanci]

Jim, remember the Thanksgiving blizzard, the same year as the Halloween blizzard? I put my kid on the back of my horse and rode a mile through drifts up past Annie's chest to get Kelly out to a plowed road (Highway 96) so my sister could take her for days until we got plowed out. I missed four days of work for both of those. The horse, Anne, thought I had lost my mind.

 

[tricksterpup]

Nanci, sadly, I was still living in Southern Indiana at the time. I moved up here in 97.
So when I moved up here, these last 12 years have been mild. This is my first true old fashion MN snow storm.

 

[Jenber]

It's intense to say the least, we haven't really gotten hit by it quite that bad up north yet, glad I'm not in the cities anymore...sorta. I do miss the bigger city atmosphere but glad not to have to deal with all that traffic and which streets are plowed and which aren't. Hopefully you can make it places today?! Lmao at the Metrodome, that's been a long time coming, we need to rebuild it and update it to either withstand the elements or make it an open-air stadium!

ps- thanks for taking pictures of the weather, not many people I know would have done that, good to see what it's like!

 

[ratsncorns]

Those are some awesome pictures! I remember when 36" fell in the Front Range of Colorado in less than two days (record of 99" in the foothills). Roofs collapsed all over the state, and it was like the world stopped. But that snow, it was gorgeous. I remember looking outside and seeing nothing but white, not even cars because they were completely covered in snow. I loved it! In my lifetime, I would love to see another storm like that one.

Whats funny, is I have a friend who lives in Buffalo, NY and 30" of snow is no big deal to her LOL

 

[Hypancistrus]

I love snow. I would happily move farther North.

 

[sarae]

Nanci, sadly, I was still living in Southern Indiana at the time. I moved up here in 97.
So when I moved up here, these last 12 years have been mild. This is my first true old fashion MN snow storm.

What part of southern indiana were you in? We had a nice storm back in 1991 (i think).. I remember tunneling through the 10' snow drifts at the back of my house. All fun and games until it collapsed on me. Then it was no game, just fun! :roflmao:

 

[Hallie]

Gorgeous pictures Jim!! Looks like a pretty typical Erie lake effect snow storm. We got hit with about 22" last week and should be getting hit with a foot or more starting in a few hours (over night and into tomorrow). The Weather Channel actually reported from about 3 miles from my house last week on the huge amount of snow we were getting (and those of us who saw the report thought it was ridiculous...just a normal winter day around here :laugh: ).

 

[Feuerhak]

Nice pictures! That's pretty much what it looked like here too. I tried to run into town last night at about 6p, and made it less than a quarter mile due to whiteout visibility. Started re-arranging snow this morning at about 8a, and just now finished it up at 3:45p. It must be nap time.

 

[ratsnakehaven]

Holy crappola, batman! Looks like you live in Antarctica... :eek1:

Actually, I lived in Northern Michigan before moving to AZ, and heartily agree with Nanci and Rich. It was 79* here this afternoon.

Good luck... :sidestep:

Terry

 

[Nanci]

I guess the 1991 Halloween blizzard holds the record of 28.4 inches. (Your weather is making national news with the measley 17", which is what, the fifth biggest snowfall in Minneapolis? I find that hard to believe!) I was let go from work early (they let people with long drives and people with kids go home the earliest) and left at 2PM. I got home at 6PM, (30 mile drive) and my daughter had gone trick or treating with a friend. (Kids were tough those days!) We were snowed in for four days that time, too.

 

[ratsnakehaven]

I was let go from work early (they let people with long drives and people with kids go home the earliest) and left at 2PM. I got home at 6PM, (30 mile drive) and my daughter had gone trick or treating with a friend. (Kids were tough those days!) We were snowed in for four days that time, too.

Ok, here's a story (just for the heck of it.)

It was probably about ten yrs. ago. I got up to a blizzard. Drove my all-wheel drive SUV to school, 37.5 miles one way. Our school never cancelled unless the roads were covered in ice. I counted nine vehicles in the ditches, including one semi, tractor trailor. I made numerous 911 calls on the way giving locations of the accidents. Taught school most of the day before hearing the roads were now closed by state police and we would be put up in the school overnight. But by the end of the school day they reopened the main roads and said we could leave at our own risk. Took me 3 hours and it was very cold and dark, but I made it home for dinner.

TC