Welcome to winter
Posted at 10:53 AM on November 17, 2010
by Bob Collins
(8 Comments)
Filed under: Surveys and trivia, Weather
How do you explain Minnesota to people who've never been here?
You show them this, which someone shot after the big snowfall over the weekend.
Comments (8)
That is a great video!
But why? Why would anyone do that?
I explain to folks that our outdoor pop machines have to be heated to keep the bottles/cans from freezing during the winter.
That tends to cause a double-take.
davidz, I've mentioned how we have to put our beer into a snow bank to help insulate it and keep it from freezing as fast.
@Cara: Because it's awesome!
dude!
Because it's what all MN kids learn to do... light something on fire, then ski on it... ?
Years ago, I went to Target the morning of the first snow to buy a snow brush (I'd gotten my first post-college car the previous summer). I ended up explaining to the newly-immigrated cashier what it was for - she'd been confused for hours.
These days I'm up to four scrapers and two snow brushes in the car.
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