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Ice Storm Photos
I apologize for not posting these photos sooner...I couldn't look at them without feeling ill. Seriously. I had to avoid the...
4/23/13 at 2:05 PM THANK YOU, Mr. Electric Man! 4/16/13 at 1:06 PM
Ice, Snow, Devastation and a Kazoo Band 4/13/13 at 1:07 PM
The calm after the ice storm
There were all sorts of blogs I wanted to write things I wanted to say, people I wanted to recognize and little did you see this tidbits I wanted to share in the days immediately following the ice st...
4/16/13 at 5:07 PM
Food Safety in a Power Outage
Well, Worthington, this has been quite the spring/winter storm! With the abundant power outages, food safety can be of real concern. Fortunately, with the rolling blackouts we are having, the power sh...
4/11/13 at 11:06 AM
Tuesday meeting to start writing disaster-relief bill
Minnesota legislators and Gov. Mark Dayton staffers plan to meet Tuesday as they begin writing a bill to provide disaster relief. The 11:30 a.m. meeting in the state Capitol will be the first of what...
8/2/12 at 1:18 PM Open or closed? State leaders debate planning disaster bill 7/26/12 at 3:52 AM
Machine shed destroyed in storm
Paul Kepka was working over by Brewster when the storm hit. He and his co-workers heard the news: A tornado had touched down six miles west of Worthington. "That'll probably be my place," Kepka sa...
5/5/12 at 1:21 AM
The Un-Covered Bridge in Vermont
Forward by the author: Imagine this scenario with a historic bridge in general. You have a multi-span structure spanning a ravine for more than 150 years. In European standards it would be common as ...
3/26/12 at 11:17 AM
Germanarctica!
Normally at about this time of year, there would be snow ranging from six inches to a foot in the northern parts of the US and all of Canada, while Europe would thaw early because of its mild winters...
2/8/12 at 7:26 AM
What a storm ...
... and clearly, what we had here in Worthington paled in comparison to what took place to our south. On Friday night about 9:15 p.m. or so, the thunder started to rumble pretty ominously outside, and...
6/27/10 at 8:43 AM
1935: Dust Cloud Turns Day to Night in Freak Weather Event
A week of weird weather culminated in a freak manifestation of a dust cloud that turned day to night in 1935, casting a weird shade onto the entire countryside. Next post at 11 a.m....
4/8/10 at 12:00 AM 1959: Blizzard Rages Across the Plains 11/11/09 at 4:00 AM
Snowmageddon Continues
Do not go anywhere today, even if you're in Worthington! I got stuck twice on the way to work. Once on the way from my cross street to Diagonal, and once in the Globe's parking lot, which hadn't been...
12/25/09 at 10:24 AM Blizzmas 2009 12/23/09 at 9:13 AM
