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Blizzard blasts area, forces closings

November 13, 2014
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Blizzard blasts area, forces closings

photo by Logan Gruber Eric Poissant, of St. Cloud, cleared snow while working for the city of St. Joseph Wednesday morning on College Avenue N. Poissant said the city was being very efficient with taxpayer money. The crews had been out all morning Wednesday, and on Tuesday their day started at 2 a.m. Poissant and his family hope to move to St. Joseph soon.

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by Dennis Dalman

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Central Minnesota was struck with a blizzard Nov. 10, forcing school closings across Minnesota, including in St. Joseph, where around one foot of snow fell.

St. Cloud school district started two hours late Tuesday. Street crews in the area worked hard in the wee hours of Monday well through the daylight hours, as well as on Tuesday to clear roads.

Every school in central Minnesota was closed Monday or had late-morning starts the next day, including the universities and the vocational school. Many other meetings and events were also canceled because travel was, at best, fraught with dangers.

Massive amounts of blowing snow fell over much of the northern United States, and in central Minnesota it was the most snow received this early in the season since a blizzard that happened on Halloween day in 1991.

It also topped the record for snow on Nov. 10, breaking the previous record, which was only two inches that fell on Nov. 10, 1996.

The snow began falling at 2 a.m. Monday and continued all day, whipped by winds as strong as 25 mph, which greatly reduced visibility caused by the powdery snow being whipped into roadways and elsewhere.

There were scores of fender-bender-type accidents reported throughout the area, and a few of them resulted in minor injuries.

Some places in central Minnesota received as many as 16 inches of snow.

The National Weather Service released a winter storm warning until noon Tuesday. Meteorologists are blaming the massive storm on weather conditions produced by the aftermath of Typhoon Nuri, near Alaska, which pushed cold air into the United States. Temperatures plummeted to 20- to 40-degrees below average in a huge swath of the nation’s 48 states. Snow covered the northern states – Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

photo by Logan Gruber Eric Poissant, of St. Cloud, cleared snow while working for the city of St. Joseph Wednesday morning. Poissant said the city was being very efficient with taxpayer money.  The crews had been out all morning Wednesday, and on Tuesday their day started at 2 a.m. Poissant and his family hope to move to St. Joseph soon.

photo by Logan Gruber
Eric Poissant, of St. Cloud, cleared snow while working for the city of St. Joseph Wednesday morning. Poissant said the city was being very efficient with taxpayer money. The crews had been out all morning Wednesday, and on Tuesday their day started at 2 a.m. Poissant and his family hope to move to St. Joseph soon. photo by Logan Gruber Snow could be seen all over town Wednesday morning, though roads, alleys and parking lots had been cleared.

photo by Logan Gruber
Snow could be seen all over town Wednesday morning, though roads, alleys and parking lots had been cleared. photo by Logan Gruber Mounds of snow could be seen all over town in the middle of the street.  This pile sits on West Ash Street, near the city offices.

photo by Logan Gruber
Mounds of snow could be seen all over town in the middle of the street. This pile sits on West Ash Street, near the city offices.

photo by Logan Gruber Eric Poissant, of St. Cloud, cleared snow while working for the city of St. Joseph Wednesday morning. Poissant said the city was being very efficient with taxpayer money.  The crews had been out all morning Wednesday, and on Tuesday their day started at 2 a.m. Poissant and his family hope to move to St. Joseph soon.

photo by Logan Gruber
Eric Poissant, of St. Cloud, cleared snow while working for the city of St. Joseph Wednesday morning. Poissant said the city was being very efficient with taxpayer money. The crews had been out all morning Wednesday, and on Tuesday their day started at 2 a.m. Poissant and his family hope to move to St. Joseph soon.

 

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