The ice storm cometh

After this morning’s painful — and unsuccessful — search around the driveway and environs for the morning paper, here’s something I didn’t expect to see on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Web site. A clean map with no reported “incidents.”

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But it’s not hard to see why (I694 at Lexingont):

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Say what you will about Minnesota drivers, but there’s clearly a point at which they’ll stay put. This ice storm — said to be the worst in 20 years — is one of them.

That wasn’t the case, however, last evening:

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