Friday night, I was out with some friends out at a bar on Lake Street in Minneapolis.\u00a0 I’d heard there was a thunderstorm warning – but I didn’t expect the deluge we got.\u00a0 I think the wind got up to 60-70 miles an hour on Lake.\u00a0 The power went out, and stayed out.\u00a0 As I walked back to my car (unscathed, thank goodness, unlike a few cars up and down the street), I thought “this is gonna be a doozy”.<\/p>\n
I started trying to find my way back to Saint Paul; I drove around South Minneapolis, checking out the extent of the damage and the power outage; the damage lessened the further east you went, but many roads were blocked; there were pockets of power up into the thirties, but for the most part Minneapolis was blacked out down to 46th, sometimes 50th and further.<\/p>\n
Along about 10 o’clock, I wondered “what’s Saint Paul like?” \u00a0And for that matter the rest of the metro?<\/p>\n
So I flipped to WCCO, expecting to hear their usual severe-storm-and-aftermath patter; Mike Lynch and a crew of newspeople talking about the storm, and taking calls from people around the metro with their observations.<\/p>\n
LYNCH: “Tom in Prior Lake, go ahead”.<\/p>\n
TOM IN PRIOR LAKE: “Ya, da wind come up and a maple tree about yea big fell down on da shed”<\/p>\n
LYNCH: “How big?”<\/p>\n
TOM IN PRIOR LAKE: “Yea big”<\/p>\n
This is how WCCO has been doing weather since the earth’s crust cooled.<\/p>\n
So I flipped the radio to 830 – no, it’s not a preset on my car.<\/p>\n
And what did we get?<\/p>\n
“Best of Mischke”.<\/p>\n
Weather on the 20s. \u00a0I think.<\/p>\n
And\u00a0now\u00a0<\/em>the world has changed for the worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday night, I was out with some friends out at a bar on Lake Street in Minneapolis.\u00a0 I’d heard there was a thunderstorm warning – but I didn’t expect the deluge we got.\u00a0 I think the wind got up to 60-70 miles an hour on Lake.\u00a0 The power went out, and stayed out.\u00a0 As I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talk-radio","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38679,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946\/revisions\/38679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}