Posted on February 20, 2011 by John Hinderaker

Not Quite Snowbound

For the second time this year, the forecast calls for a foot and a half of snow to fall here in the Twin Cities. Where I live, about a foot has fallen so far. We made a trip to the supermarket to stock up, on the theory that we may not be leaving the house again for a while. No doubt–this being Minnesota and all–the roads will be plowed some time tomorrow and everything will be back to normal. For the time being, though, we are having near-blizzard conditions.
Knowing that some of our readers are unused to such conditions, I made this very short video which is intended to show what it feels like in the midst of a major snowstorm. If I had been five seconds quicker with the last clip, which was shot off my deck, I would have caught an owl flying through the trees:

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