Random Nuclear Strikes

I speak of M4GW (aka: Minnesotans For Global Warming).

After all, their version of the Iditarod has been closed down.

Because there is too much snow!

Here’s another entry for the annals of noteworthy winter weather: The dogsled race near Frazee, Minn., has been canceled because there’s too much snow.

Too much fluffy snow that keeps drifting and therefore made it impossible to maintain a groomed trail.

That poses a safety risk to the dogs, supercharged canines whose mushers need a groomed trail to drop a hook to stop when necessary.

“We can’t pack it,” race organizer Eddy Streeper said Monday. “We just can’t get it packed. We had to speak up on behalf of the dogs.”

The Third Crossing Sled Dog Rendezvous, slated for Jan. 23-24, would have been the ninth annual running of the sprint races, which twice were canceled for lack of snow.

This winter, as anyone with a driveway knows, has been a season of prodigious snows.

One of my coworkers remarked, when the Seattle area got its foot-plus last month, that one of his new neighbors moved here this summer from Minnesota. When he woke up to the “Arctic Onslaught”, he looked over to this new neighbor’s place to see him mosey out of his garage with this rather large snowblower.

He went over when the guy was finished to BS with him about the machine and the guy told him that his wife had remarked while they were packing up for the move that he should sell it because they wouldn’t need it in Washington.

Well, maybe not every year, but he was sure glad he had it this year. And yes, the guy let my coworker borrow it for his driveway.