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Minnesotans Still Arguing About the Weather...

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bigblue_dl said:
We must have gotten more snow up my way, or less melting in the woods or something. There is no way it is only 20 inches from my feet to my crotch. (ok, I may be thowing a hanging curve here) ;)
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I have more snow on my lawn, too. The official numbers have to come from certain stations; I think they're located at the airport.
 
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Home Depot is out of roof salt. Many hardware stores (including Home Depot) are out of roof rakes. Another brutal week, but then we're going to have one heckava warm up with related water issues in a week or so.
 
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I'm all paranoid about the golf season...doesn't look like it will start in early April.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Home Depot is out of roof salt. Many hardware stores (including Home Depot) are out of roof rakes. Another brutal week, but then we're going to have one heckava warm up with related water issues in a week or so.
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I'm looking at the 10-day forecast and we're not predicted to go warmer than about 22-25 degrees the whole time, which is at best 12-15 degrees below normal.

I stepped off the bus today and I was thinking that the temps were a lot warmer in Minneapolis than they were down in Apple Valley this morning. Then I saw the thermometer on the TCF Bank Building a few moments later and it read -4F. Oomph dat.
 
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My kid's lacrosse season starts in less than two weeks - outside.

Have fun with that.
 
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Biddco said:
I'm all paranoid about the golf season...doesn't look like it will start in early April.
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My first High School baseball game is scheduled for March 17th... Illinois-Chicago's 1st home baseball game is supposed to be March 7th with them supposed to play at Chicago State March 5th... Yea, I don't think that's gonna happen...

Cold baseball sucks :mad:
 
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Gurtholfin said:
My kid's lacrosse season starts in less than two weeks - outside.

Have fun with that.
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My kid is not sailing this year. They might be cramming regattas into just a few weeks again like last year. He's supposed to shoot in the trap team this spring and I'd like him to get out and practice some first - not likely to happen unless he shoots in gloves.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Home Depot is out of roof salt. Many hardware stores (including Home Depot) are out of roof rakes. Another brutal week, but then we're going to have one heckava warm up with related water issues in a week or so.
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OK, I'm ignorant.

Roof salt? I have stuff that I throw on the sidewalk, driveway to melt ice, but I've never heard of roof salt.
 
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joecct said:
OK, I'm ignorant.

Roof salt? I have stuff that I throw on the sidewalk, driveway to melt ice, but I've never heard of roof salt.
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Just salt formed into pucks that you can throw up on the roof to melt the ice dams.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
My kid's lacrosse season starts in less than two weeks - outside.

Have fun with that.
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Hmmmm..........pretty sure the kids outdoor softball season doesn't start till second week of April. Guess we're lucky in that regard. Not sure when Lacrosse starts here.
 
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joecct said:
How much snow pack do you guys have? Reason I'm asking is the snow melt has to somewhere -- like the Mississippi.

Should down river be concerned this spring?
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I have talked to numerous people now who work on the towboats with me, and we are all bracing ourselves for a brutal high water season this spring. Not only because of the snowmelt from up north, but there is significant icing on portions of the upper Mississippi, Illionois, and Ohio rivers.

The only saving grace would be if the melt off is VERY gradual. But if the switch flips and the north goes from below freezing to 50's and 60's... it isn't going to be pretty down south.
 
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joecct said:
How much snow pack do you guys have? Reason I'm asking is the snow melt has to somewhere -- like the Mississippi.

Should down river be concerned this spring?
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No.
It's never going to thaw.

Its gonna be cold
Its gonna be gray
And its gonna last for the rest of your life.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
I have talked to numerous people now who work on the towboats with me, and we are all bracing ourselves for a brutal high water season this spring. Not only because of the snowmelt from up north, but there is significant icing on portions of the upper Mississippi, Illionois, and Ohio rivers.

The only saving grace would be if the melt off is VERY gradual. But if the switch flips and the north goes from below freezing to 50's and 60's... it isn't going to be pretty down south.
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I can't find the story right now, but I recall reading that there is a place near the Arkansas - Louisiana border where the Mississippi River would like to change course, but is prevented from doing so by a dam / levee structure of some sort. Absent that structure, the mouth of the Mississippi River would be tens of miles further east than where it is now.

Rivers meander, that is their nature. Back in the 1840s, the Army Corp of Engineers said that nothing should be built between the bows of the Mississippi River, since over time, the river moves back and forth between those edges (where there is water now, in 100 years it will be land; and where there is land now, in 100 years there will be water). Of course the political clout of real estate developers and builders over-ruled that eminently sensible advice! and so now the pressure on that dam / levee structure keeps building, year after year after year....
 
FreshFish said:
I can't find the story right now, but I recall reading that there is a place near the Arkansas - Louisiana border where the Mississippi River would like to change course, but is prevented from doing so by a dam / levee structure of some sort. Absent that structure, the mouth of the Mississippi River would be tens of miles further east than where it is now.

Rivers meander, that is their nature. Back in the 1840s, the Army Corp of Engineers said that nothing should be built between the bows of the Mississippi River, since over time, the river moves back and forth between those edges (where there is water now, in 100 years it will be land; and where there is land now, in 100 years there will be water). Of course the political clout of real estate developers and builders over-ruled that eminently sensible advice! and so now the pressure on that dam / levee structure keeps building, year after year after year....
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There are already parts of Illinois in Missouri, but I think it was due to an earthquake.
 
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One of my favorite classes in college was a geology class about maps and landforms. Learning how the river valleys are cut and how erosion works over geological time was an eye opener and I'm keenly aware of those things when I view things in nature now.

The Mississippi is a great example of this and I lived in LaCrosse for 5 years and got to see it first hand.
 
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I was actually glad it snowed yesterday. There were footprints to my front door and hidden in the door were my Frozen Four tickets. I never would have checked there if not for the footprints.
 
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While you guys are all freezing down there, Anchorage just set a record high for February 27, 49 degrees.
 
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