By Jim Heffernan
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| Duluth MN: Treacherous winter storm on December 4, 2013. (Photo by Derek Montogomery for MPR News) |
Well,
the big holiday looms.
As
I venture out each morning to get the newspaper and mail, I walk through a
canyon of snow banks, some of them taller than I.
Briskly
walking through the canyons of snow, braving sub-zero temperatures, I’ve been
thinking that this white winter scene is precisely what people from other parts
of the country think it is like in Duluth all the time.
When
I travel to other parts of the country – almost always to the south of here –
and tell people where I’m from, they usually respond by saying things like,
“Brrrr, it’s cold up there.” People in Minneapolis-St. Paul react that way.
Never mind the people way down south. To them, these conditions are
unimaginable.
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| Duluth MN: Famous Halloween Storm of 1991 Duluth News Tribune photo, on MPR web site: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/bigstory/archive/2011/10/halloween-blizzard-was-no-treat.shtml |
It’s
a perception thing that Duluth can’t fight. We might as well just accept it.
So let me just take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Fourth of July.
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