If you don't live in the Midwest, you may have heard that Minnesota experienced a record-setting storm yesterday that resulted in well over a foot of snow. Strong winds (gusting to 50mph) turned south Minneapolis into a snowy desert with drifting dunes of snow accumulating all over the place. Buses were called back to the garage, plows were called back, and just about everything ground to a halt. Today the streets are still a mess, with cars buried in snowbanks as far as the eye can see.
Our fair
Midtown Greenway commuter trail, normally plowed before the surface streets nearby, is a disaster for bikes. Fortunately, us Minnesotans have a few other ways to get around in this weather. Myself and one other coworker skied to work today. Here what the Greenway looked like when I came in around noon:
Here's what the snowdrift on the Greenway in front of Midtown looked like yesterday afternoon and again as we were closing up, when the drift was about chest-deep:
