# I \*love\* Minnesota **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409 "2002-03-15T04:20:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/21 "2002-03-15T20:41:22Z")
chique said > [@](#): > > imthjckaz, what were you thinking? NEVER shovel before it’s done falling…it’s just not worth it I have expressed this very thought to Mr. Punky several million times. He gets this annoyingly superior attitude, points out that I was raised in Alabama and he in Wausau, and tries to convince me that it’s better to shovel as you go, so that you don’t have as much to do when it finally stops. He’s shovelled out our driveway four times now. (After work yesterday, around 8:30 pm, before work this morning, and when he came home for lunch.) He did try the snow-blower (inherited from grandparents who finally broke down nad hired the neighbor kid like the whole family has been telling them to for years), but he had to siphon gas from the motorcycle and then the belt snapped when he tried to get through the snowplow drift. I have a feeling that this would be a good day to be very, very nice to him. Remind me again: why did I move north? ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/22 "2002-03-15T20:49:02Z")
It’s 70 degrees in southcentral Pennsylvania! And it’s only supposed to get down into the 40s tonight! And we’re going to get some rain! We’ve been under a drought watch since January. That is all. Zap! ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/23 "2002-03-15T21:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ffmdavis \* > \*\*If only UMD ever canceled classes. \*\* Tell me about it! Although last year they cancelled classes for a day - after a friggin’ ice storm knocked the power out over most of the town and felled dozens of trees around the campus. [hijack]Do you attend UMD currently? I’m a computer science geek there right now.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/24 "2002-03-15T21:32:37Z")
To quote a short excerpt from a coworker’s lament: > [@](#): > > I nearly called in, vacation day or not, but Lisa doesn’t have any spare vacation time, so…I didn’t. Instead, I spent 30 minutes plowing the driveway, muffler fell off the snowblower, ran out of gas (the snowblower) once, drive belt fell off twice, the third time it snapped, then I shoveled the rest of it. > > _sigh_ And people are telling me to buy a house!? ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/25 "2002-03-15T21:35:27Z")
This thread makes me think of [this](http://www.jestsandjokes.com/show.php3?joke=63) (or things similar). I went to the gym on Wednesday (for those of you following the spring fitness thread, I did what I said I would!) and am still a bit sore. In fact, I discovered that the same muscles I exercised by lifting weights are _also_ the same muscles needed to scrape ice off my car. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/26 "2002-03-15T22:10:09Z")
So I called into work last night. When I woke up this morning, the snow in my driveway was level with the bumper of my car, which was completely piled with snow itself, and the drifts in my yard were taller than me. Did I mention the roof-to-ground icicles? Now it’s all blue sky and sunny and it’s actually pretty warm outside. The icicles are gone, there’s NO snow on my car, and the neighbor came over this morning to plow out our driveway. Looks like I’ll be going to work tonight… ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/27 "2002-03-15T22:49:34Z")
I’m with you guys. Minnesota is wonderful; especially Southeast Minnesota which looks just like Northeast Iowa. In fact, if it were not for a surveying mistake by Lieutenant Pike, the Pike’s Peak guy, in 1804, Southeast Minnesota would be Northeast Iowa, all the way up to Northfield. As someone said long before G. Kellor said it, we have winter to keep the riffraff out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/28 "2002-03-16T00:22:04Z")
There is one simple pleasure about a huge March snowfall… And that’s using the interstate to clean the snow off my truck. All you have to do is wait until the middle of the next afternoon when the residual highway snow has melted or been scraped off and the highways are dry again. Then, get on I-35, take a bead on Iowa, and floor it. It’s neat when most of it disintegrates in one big _Whoosh!_ Of course, it does look kinda cool as you’re accelerating up to defrosting speed…sort of like there’s a rampant igloo flying along the interstate at low altitude. Hey, we take our winter jollies where we can find 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/29 "2002-03-16T00:46:58Z")
It’s looking like about a 90% chance that I’ll be moving to a job at the University of Minnesota here in the next month or so. Good thing I’ve always liked cold weather. Deciding whether my arrival is a good or bad thing for the state is left as an exercise for the reader. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/30 "2002-03-16T01:59:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*Feh. Something wrong with you people. . . At the main gate on base, they have a sign that says “Only the best come North”. > > Yeah, and the lucky get to leave . . . :rolleyes: > > Tripler > “Snow” is a 4-letter word. \*\* You didn’t misplace your new white truck did you? As for myself, I’ll be skiing this weekend thanks to the snow gods north of Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409/31 "2002-03-16T05:13:40Z")
…and then today it gets up to 40, the snow and ice on the roads melt, but there’s still enough snow piled on the rest of the world to make it a Perfect Day. Roll the window down, crank some tunes, fly down the interstate, it’s all good. 'course, filing my taxes and getting a substantial refund don’t hurt none, either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-minnesota/98409.md?page=1)