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I just talked to one of my sisters today who lives in my home town in northern Minnesota. She said there is a blizzard warning today with 4 to 8 inches of blowing and drifting snow with a temperature of 27 degrees below zero tonight and wind chills for the next three days of 30 to 40 degrees below zero! Ground Crew networking in Minnesota?....NOT!!!

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I talked to her this morning, it was -20 this morning with a high temp. of -10 for today with winds around 20mph!

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That will sort the survivor men from the boys.

Its harsh, but doable. You just got to use your noodle! (brain) and actually makes hunting and trapping easier (as well as fishing)

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HaHa or stay inside by the wood stove!, Yeah most people up there are o.k. with it and just go on with life!

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Uh huh.

Hopefully next life ill come back as a sammi / lapp native.

I LOVE the snow and a clear crisp cold day.

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Yes winter is quite pretty as long as you have alot of snow! I grew up there and did alot of ice skating and ice fishing and all that good stuff, but left when I turned 18 and never went back! Almost 30 years ago! LOL! Oh yes and never carry beer in the winter up there for it will freeze in no time, we always drank whiskey in the winter because it never froze! HaHa

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Hahahahaha yeah whisky for the winter time. Winner by far.

I think I may have to move to experience a real winter again..Scotlands just too warm.

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I thought you guys got snow there, or does it just not stay around very long?

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We get snow, but we don't get to ice skate and play street hockey. Man, i don't want to grow old not ever seeing a river froze over and skating on it!

I LOVE the cold. Makes me feel alive.

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Yeah we would use all the lakes for short cuts when driving!, quickest way to get somewhere is to cut across the lake! And when we were in High School we would park our cars 5 or 6 wide next to each other out in the middle of the lake and drink, HaHa and watch the cops driving by on the street because they couldn't come out on the ice, it was against their rules.Ah the good old days! You could skate on 3 or 4 inches of ice and drive a car on 6 inches easily. We had huge bonfires on the ice all the time.

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Thats right... just rub it in. Thanks.

LOL.

Any ways, cold weather kills off all of natures nasties.

Speaking of which, does your old home town get midges / black fly and biting insects in summer?

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Terrible!!!!!!!, the mosquitoes will carry you away, the what we call horse flies and deer flies will attack relentlessly. A joke up there is a t-shirt that says Minnesota state bird, with a picture of a mosquito. Not to mention wood ticks and deer ticks, and deer ticks carry lyme disease, which is funny because nobody ever got lyme disease when we were growing up!, or nobody ever got sick from mosquitos either!, hmmm

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Hahahaha Minnesota for the winter then and ..... Portugal or southern spain for the summer..

Only thing is how to get across the atlantic after TEOTWAWKI

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Sol,
I think it's high time you moved out to the great white north! Canada welcomes you! Ehh?
Peace of Mind,
Wormhole

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You know worm, I may just be bending the future that direction.

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Funny, I'm actually headed to southern California in a few weeks, oops!, maybe I should get a rowboat with seatbelts in it for when we fall into the ocean!, hmmm.

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LOL.

I cannot go to the USA as I refuse to have mandatory vaccines pumped into me, my wife and kiddie. Oh and we are going to home school because we are a pair of geniuses.

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Hell yes, home schooling is the way to go! Especially if you're certified smart :mfr_omg: I don't have kids,phew, missed that one somehow, :thumb_yello: LOL!, But if I did that's what I would do.

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minus 33 below here in Minnesota today. Hubby went to blow snow and frooze his fingers. He warmed up and look like he was running a marathon when he was out there finishing the job

He does our elderly neighbors home and I have to think of what she thought to see him move so fast. LOL:naughty:



PS

Please God, Keep my husband safe

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Hey mn, I was wondering when you were going to reply to this Minnesota thread! LOL! You know my hometown, Detroit Lakes, MN, which I think is 200 miles north of you.brrrrr!

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Home school all the way.

math, physics, chemistry, warfare, assassination... got it all covered.

:mfr_lol:

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...oh and a bit of cold weather skills too.


Got me a great pair of baffin boots too. :)

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Hey Sol, I was thinking that the only thing about home schooling is the socializing that the kids miss out on, I guess that can be good and bad!

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Nope. Home school you get to socialise with a broader spectrum of people quicker, which gives a more widely balanced view of social interaction between humans.

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Snow doesn't quite scare me anymore, though we still get a lot of it from time to time (but nothing like Buffalo, NY).

Of course, keeping warm is highly important among other things.

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Yeah Humble, snow is a piece of cake, it's the cold that's bad! Myself and two friends in high school decided to go to one of my dads cabins and spend the night. We couldn't drive into the cabin because the snow was too deep, so we strapped on snowshoes and walked a mile through 2 feet deep snow, got to the cabin and somebody had stolen the pot-belly stove, by that time it was dark out so instead of turning around and going home we decided to build a big fire and spend the night outside by the cabin, well big mistake!, the next morning after not sleeping at all and listening to wolves all night out in the distance we went back to the truck and it wouldn't start, so we had to walk another mile down the road to find someone to give us a jump! After being frozen solid all night and finally getting the truck started we left, and as we were leaving my brother showed up and told us it was -32 degrees last night. So the whole thing about this story is there was not a big enough fire to keep warm!, we built a fire that was 6 feet across and 6 feet high and it made no difference at all!, we could not build a big enough fire to stay warm outside at 32 degrees below zero!

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Hahahahaha you failed dude.

Theres a very simple native american way to build a fire and a shelter to stay warm at even those temperatures out doors.

Guess you don't know it though after reading that....:lol3::lmao::mfr_lol:

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Hey I did survive though! And remember we were teenagers more worried about keeping our beer from freezing! We actually lined up our beer bottles around the fire and they started freezing vertically, in otherwards the side by the fire was liquid and the side not facing the fire was slush!, we had to rotate them every couple of minutes!, LOL! And it was pitch black out by the time we got there, so we figured a big fire would keep us warm, NOT! My feet and hands were numb for a half a day after that!...Dumb ass kids HaHa

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Theres so many lessons in your words I just crack up reading them.

Glad you got through it though... even if you did need thawing out in the morning.

:) Oh and beer? base first at the edge of the fire, then you get a nice ice crown to make it bubble over as you drink.

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My son lives in Elbow Lake between Fergus & Alexandria

They got the snow and the kids are out of school so they're happy. BRRRRRRRRR is right Dan,

I'm satisfied to just "look" outside. So glad my shopping is complete.

Its still cold today but I will contribute that to the "global warming" we are going through, just ask gore about it !:naughty:

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:lmao:

Al Gore....

:mfr_lol:

Global warming? then explain why mars and jupiter and the whole entire solar system is heating up.

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HaHaHa, well that will never happen again, it was a nice cabin that my dad and I built using nothing but chain saws and hammers. There was no elec. or plumbing, it was in the middle of 40 acres of pine trees miles from anybody. We used it for our hunting and snowmobiling cabin and even had a ramp going into the door so if any snowmobiles broke down we could pull them inside and work on them! It would sleep 12 people on 3 sets of double bunk beds.We used all rough cut lumber with 2 inch styrofoam in the walls for insulation, and we never locked it because being in the middle of nowhere if somebody wanted something they would just break in anyway. It was right on the edge of Indian country so you didn't just go wondering about without knowing where you're going!

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HaHa Elbow Lake!, I've done alot of snowmobiling on Elbow Lake! and the trails around it. I want to say there is a resort there called the Hoot Owl Resort on Elbow Lake, but it's been a long time! We used to ride 40 to 50 miles a day on our snowmobiles easy, I used to drive mine to high school when we had enough snow!

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Sounds like that was an ideal location to go chill out.

No pun intended of course.

That some one stole the stove shows that people just do not respect that their actions could of killed some one.

Hang all thieves.

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Very beautiful state! Lakes so clear you can see 20 feet down! My dad went out to the cabin the next weekend and all he could say to me was "you sure made a mess building that fire outside the cabin" I thought holy s...t we were trying to survive damn it!

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Typical Dads way of saying he cares in a macho kind of way.

Still though, you should of cleared up your mess dammit!

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HaHa I would've cleaned up but I was frozen solid! and couldn't even feel my hands or feet!, Ha then when we got back to the truck and it wouldn't start we ended up building a fire under the engine to try and warm it up so it would start, and when that didn't work we walked a mile down the road to this farmers house to get him to give us a jump because the battery was dead! I'll never forget that farmer, he had a dog that would smile, it was a huge dog and the guy would say "smile" and the dog would stretch his mouth back to look like a smile! LOL!

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sweet!! Im glad im not having to enjoy all the snow by myself!!! lol

its been falling and falling.....

and i think the snow plows have decided its just not worth it,...

the last plow i saw was at like 6 am,.....

and it hasnt stopped snowing. haha

:D

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You guys have my sympathies. We are having a fairly hot summer and expected to get hotter. Wish i could send some heat your way so we could have temperate weather all round.
Take care and stay warm.:cup: