Just another Minnesota morning.


Just another Minnesota morning. Take note, Atlanta. I made it to work in my tiny Versa and the roads haven't been plowed at all yet.

It is actually snowing a lot harder than Google makes this look.

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  1. Brian TakleJanuary 30, 2014 at 6:33 AM

    I was going to make a post like "We got 3 inches of snow this morning and it delayed my commute by roughly zero minutes."

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  2. Casey G.January 30, 2014 at 6:37 AM

    Mine was about 10 minutes slow. I was still on time.

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  3. James OlchakJanuary 30, 2014 at 6:54 AM

    So you're saying that people who live in areas where they deal with a certain kind of inclement weather every year are better able to do so than people who live in areas where they deal with it once a decade?

    I'll take "the bleeding obvious" for 200, Alex.

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  4. Brian TakleJanuary 30, 2014 at 6:57 AM

    No he's saying we're badass.

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  5. Casey G.January 30, 2014 at 6:59 AM

    Give us the winter driving, James Olchak, we've got so little. The south can take some ribbing from us northerners about driving and laugh when we're in the snow and it's 70 degrees down there.

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  6. James OlchakJanuary 30, 2014 at 7:03 AM

    Sure, it's 70 in November, but in June through September it's 95 degrees with 95% humidity. WHY DOES THE WHOLE TOWN SMELL LIKE FEET


    It's just not badass to walk around soaked in sweat for 1/4 of the year, I guess.

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  7. Alison ZieselJanuary 30, 2014 at 8:57 AM

    Hear hear, James Olchak . I'd rather trudge through snow several months of the year than marinate in my own perspiration an equivalent amount of time...

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  8. Casey G.January 30, 2014 at 9:01 AM

    I thought that's what porches, rocking chairs, hand fans, mint juleps were for?

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  9. James OlchakJanuary 30, 2014 at 9:10 AM

    Shit, maybe.  My family's from Pittsburgh.

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