Archive for January 29th, 2008

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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I found out that the pages are out of alignment when viewed with IE 6, but it seems to be fine with either Firefox or IE 7.
Part of that may be due to using the default theme for the page which I’m planning to change when I get a chance.

Which reminds me, sometime I need to write about the importance of standardization!

Ice fishing and more on Lake Minnetonka

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I got to drive across a lake for the first time this past Sunday afternoon. The 50 mph lake speed limit on Lake Minnetonka was no problem to follow (inside the 150 foot shore-zone the limit is only 15 mph). People I talked to around here assure me that it has been frozen for a long time now (so it must be pretty thick), but no one has been able to say how thick the ice is.

car on lake

Driving on a huge lake gives you that same feeling you get on a huge roller coaster. You think in the back of your head that you might fall through a crack in the ice and freeze to death while at the same time you reassure yourself that there is the chance of that happening is practically zero and besides, there are so many other people doing it, so don’t worry!

State law says that all ice fishing houses have to be off the lake by April 1st, so if you want to come see one, you had better hurry! green-orange

Besides the ice fishing there was snowmobiling, four-wheeling, motorcycle racing end even one person para-gliding.

paraglider motorcycle various
motorcycles icehouse

More pictures here:

Ice Fishing and other Snow Sports on Lake Minnetonka, 2008-01-27

Extremely cold and windy today…

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

-32 F wind chill is no joke!

Not really any snow right now though.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN HAS CANCELLED THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CST WEDNESDAY.

ACCUMULATING SNOW HAS REMAINED OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA TODAY…BUT BITTER COLD ARCTIC AIR HAS CONTINUED TO PUSH ACROSS THE AREA ON GUSTY WINDS. CONSEQUENTLY…THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE AREA HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A WIND CHILL ADVISORY.

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS… MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.