It’s been four years and two weeks since a tornado ripped apart north Minneapolis and while there are still homes in need of repair, you might think that viewed from several thousand feet, you wouldn’t know a tornado dropped down on the city.
But that notion was dispelled when Reddit user AcerRubrum posted this image this afternoon on his/her flight into Minneapolis. Read more →
Drones — quadcopters — are certainly earned their stripes as tools of news gathering and storytelling.
The latest example comes from Houston where Bryan Rumbaugh has posted some pretty amazing footage he took today of the flooding there. Read more →
Over the years, NewsCut has had pretty good luck reuniting the far-flung debris from a tornado with rightful owners.
Maybe we can pull it off again. Read more →
That which threatens to kill us can sure be beautiful.
This is video sweeping the Intertubes today, said to be yesterday’s eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile. Read more →
A little gloomy today, perhaps, but Aitkin County author Leif Enger’s latest video marks the official beginning of ‘we don’t complain about the weather’ season in Minnesota.
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And now let’s pause for a little reminder of why we’re willing to put up with the occasional misery of Minnesota winters.
It’s for Minnesota springs, of course. Read more →
Minnesota thinks it can compete with the Sun Belt through tax policy. Here’s why Minnesota is wrong. Read more →
Miss winter, did you?
The mild winter in flyover country might have erased just how cruddy the season can be. Read more →
Another March day in Minnesota. Another person who had to be rescued from a floating ice flow. Read more →
Before we bid adieu to winter, we tip our hat to the season that allows us to start a week with a paragraph like this in today’s Mankato Free Press about the inaugural Duct Tape Derby at Mt. Kato on Saturday.
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There is no mandatory standard testing for science in Minnesota, and it shows around this time of the year when people insist on ice fishing despite warm temperatures, ignoring not only science, but warnings not to go ice fishing at this time of the year. Read more →
I don’t really have much reason to post this video other than to point out how utterly brown things are in Minnesota, and, apparently, how dry.
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Roger Hanson can return home to Big Lake now after months installing his art sculpture in Superior, Wisconsin.
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Roger Hanson spent most of the winter trying to get his ice sculpture built. Now, when he wants it down, it stubbornly refuses. Read more →
Rather than an art installation, the city got performance art, instead — a rootin’ tootin’ Midwesterner on display who didn’t let the wrath of winter get him down. Read more →
Bob Collins