2010 Historic Blizzard

Winter has started early here and is in full force.  This weekend marked the third royal dumping we've got in the past month or so and takes the cake.  Friday evening the blizzard arrived and finally quieted down by Sunday morning. Runways at the airport and freeways were closed, the metro transit stopped, and several people left stranded, the blizzard made southwest MN stand still.

 I was snowed in most of Saturday and was able to make a short trek over to the Fuch's household for some holiday baking with Katie!  Scotty made it downtown for the Golden Gophers win over E. Kentucky.  He got a special treat after the game: he got to go in the locker room and saw Tubby and all the players!
When all was said and done, we got a roughly 20 inches!  This blizzard is easily piling up into the Top 10 snowfalls ever measured in the Twin Cities.  The last large blizzard like this Minnesota saw was the 1991 Halloween blizzard that accumulated 28 inches. But this one went out with a bang.  Sunday morning at 5am the metrodome collapsed. Here is the link to the video taken by the dome cameras from inside: Metrodome collapse.
This week's forecast: snow.

The table was cleared off right before the snowfall.

Our front step. Thank goodness for our association... I didn't have to shovel!



Our poor neighbors