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Junkpet

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26. This is what makes Minnesotans so damn tough, patient and resilient...

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Mon May 13, 2013, 09:47 AM

May 2013

...36 degrees one day, with sheets of ice pounding on the back door and 90 degrees a day later and time to get the swimming trunks. Probably one of the reasons we respect mother nature so much, as well. I was born and raised in Park Rapids, MN and went to school in Grand Forks, ND...you're either tough, patient, resilient and respect mother nature or you just don't make it.

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Giant sheets of ice creep onto Minnesota shore, surge toward houses [View all] icymist May 2013 OP

Call it Half-Century Man May 2013 #1

Mille Lacs is not in the "northwest end" of the state. Brickbat May 2013 #2

Well Red Lake isn't northwest either....lot more central and snappyturtle May 2013 #7

A lot more central? It's much farther north and a little more west than Mille Lacs. Brickbat May 2013 #20

Well by golly it is a bit further west than Ithought. On this map snappyturtle May 2013 #23

If some of the comments on that article are to be believed, this is a regular occurrence drm604 May 2013 #3

there's a broad range for what is unusual in MN azurnoir May 2013 #5

Yup. DeSwiss May 2013 #6

Wow! tofuandbeer May 2013 #17

Here it's been nutz for a while azurnoir May 2013 #18

As they say in NC....actually...every state I've lived in... MynameisBlarney May 2013 #15

I lived fifteen years on a 5000 acre lake in Cass County MN...on snappyturtle May 2013 #8

We stopped at nearby Leech Lake when I was a kid, Sucker Bay impressed me but no way was I going uppityperson May 2013 #12

I was close to Leech too! The leeches aren't a problem...swam there snappyturtle May 2013 #13

Spent summers at a lake near Detroit Lakes, was always told "Don't go under the dock uppityperson May 2013 #14

Good story! thanks nt snappyturtle May 2013 #16

Global Warming Is Over! nt onehandle May 2013 #4

Icymist and a story about ice coming in from the mists Paulie May 2013 #9

LOL! nt icymist May 2013 #11

The local news covered this and it was "Check out the ice" no big deal Thor_MN May 2013 #10

So true, and so hilarious. Brickbat May 2013 #27

Some people are saying The Wizard May 2013 #19

Fast moving waves of christx30 May 2013 #22

all that frozen fresh water. To bad they can't move & dump ice in the droutlands. Sunlei May 2013 #21

Quick! Back in the Tardis! (nt) Nye Bevan May 2013 #24

Holy Sheet! nt Xipe Totec May 2013 #25

This is what makes Minnesotans so damn tough, patient and resilient... Junkpet May 2013 #26

Happens regularly in WI ... Myrina May 2013 #28

Must be global warming! Pterodactyl Jul 2013 #29