The first measurable snow of the season hit yesterday and was followed up, as it usually is, in Mother Nature's truly charming way, with a decent round of truly bitter temperatures. Iowa City escaped with a minimal amount of fuss, as far as I could tell and I got the trusty shovel out this morning and got the sidewalks done before heading to work.
However, the Medium White North got SLAMMED. The Twin Cities metro area got 17.1 inches and areas south got more than that- and as a double bonus, Brett Favre's shoulder called in a favor with the Big Man Upstairs and got an extra day to nurse it's reported strain, because way, hey, hey there was so much snow, it collapsed the roof of the Metrodome- for the first time since 1983. So the Vikings get the rare pleasure of playing at Detroit's Ford Field as, I'm guessing the home team tomorrow night. Hopefully that's not an omen. (Footage of the Metrodome Collapse from the INSIDE. Pretty cool stuff- is here.) There was some talk of holding the game at the University of Minnesota's new TCF Bank Stadium, but between the Giants not packing cold weather (boo, hoo, hoo) and the sheer pain-in-the-ass time consuming process of clearing that field, they went with Detroit. Disappointing, but I understand it.
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