Do any of you remember the Halloween blizzard of 1991?

[Fox Mulder]

It was 14 years ago today. Boy...seems like forever ago.

I was 9 at the time. I didn't go trick-or-treating. Instead, I was at a friend's house and we had a little party. I remember my friend was screwing around in the basement and he sat in some cake and got it all over his ass. That was funny. We spent the night playing the original Super Mario Bros. on NES and Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega. Ahhh...the good ol' days.

So much has change since 1991. It's so depressing. :(

[Fox Mulder]

1. Anyone?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Me. I was stuck downtown at a friend's condo.

Couldn't get home until the next day. That was really amazing -- almost as bad as another one in January (I think) of 1982, in which it took me 3 hours to drive 10 miles. Hope we don't get another one like that.

[dflprincess]

3. Who could forget?

My company has a new employee who is based in Nashville. Prior to taking this job he's lived his whole life in Texas. He's being sent up to Minneapolis for some training next week and he's worried to death about our weather....Of course, I didn't help.

I was speaking to him Friday and he asked if we got much snow in early November. I assured him it's the exception, rather than than the norm....but I couldn't resist. I did casually mention the 3 feet of snow we got one Halloween; then mentioned the Great Armistice Day blizzard of 1940 (Mom still talks about that.) The guy must be pretty young, or older and not interested in history, because he didn't know what Armistice Day was.

[katinmn]

4. Man, do I remember!

I went to the hospital in labor on the 27th, came home with a new baby on the 30th. I remember the nervous drive home from Fairview Riverside. The first big snowflakes were starting to fall.

It snowed and snowed and snowed. My folks had driven up from Ely but they wee stuck in my brother's apartment about two miles away for days.

My car, parked on the street, was completely obliterated. Everyone's was. Just big lumpy mounds. After it stopped snowing, people were skiing and snowmobiling down my street on Portland Avenue.

I also remember the Twins won the World Series that weekend.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I remember that World Series, too.

It was the weekend before the blizzard, and the weather was really nice. I managed to snag a ticket to game 7, which was awesome, and there were a lot of happy drunk people cavorting through downtown Minneapolis. Then on Thursday the blizzard hit, and it took days to dig out.

[Fox Mulder]

7. Ah...yes...

I remember the Twins winning the World Series that weekend. Those were the days.

I remember on November 1st (or around there) that I went to my grandpa's house. We tried driving out (I think my dad was driving an Omni or an Escort) and we got stuck in the road. Man, did that suck. The neighborhood guys had to come out and push us free. Thankfully, as much as I can remember, we did get free and made it to my grandpa's.

[dpbrown]

5. I had a Halloween Party that night

Needless to say, not too many people showed up.

[loveable liberal]

8. Was driving home, last leg of the trip from Alabama.

From Madison to Stillwater we followed a semi-trailer. I94 was covered with about an inch of ice. If that truck went over a cliff we would have followed. Him in his Semi, us in our Honda CRX 2 seater (55 mpg in 1991 I might add...)

[KitchenWitch]

9. Yes, my son was 9 months old.

So he was not deprived of trick or treating.

[USA_1]

10. I Sure Do!

Luckily for me I went shopping for groceries just a couple of days before and had a stock of food. I didn't leave my apartment for about 3 or 4 days, ate, watched cable TV and stayed warm! :)

[Demrock6]

11. Yep

I remember. I was 11 at the time. My little cousins couldn't even walk through the deep snow up to houses. I was game! It is not to often kids turn down free candy.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

12. That was one of my favorite years in college

The Twins, the blizzard...
What a year.
We trekked a mile in three foot snowdrifts to rent some videos that night and end up renting "Hot Dog: the Movie" becuase my friend wanted to watch it. Snow everywhere and my friend wants to watch a video with lots of snow in it. I could'a killed him...

[Divameow77]

13. I was 14

that year. That was a boring Halloween.

[lagged_variable]

26. No way!

I was 12, and I clearly remember it as the best Halloween ever. My mom dressed us up as "snowmobilers", and since most people (like you, apparently) stayed home, it was the biggest haul I ever got in my life! People were literally dumping their candybowls into my sack. I had to stop after a block, I was so overloaded.

Now that I no longer live in MN, it's one of my favorite "Minnesota is a frigid paradise" stories.

[newyawker99]

27. Hi lagged_variable!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Divameow77]

28. I had stopped trick or treating by then

that is probably why it was so boring.

[NickB79]

34. Ah ha! I was a 12-yr old VAMPIRE snowmobiler! Beat that

At least, I'm sure that's what I looked like in my snowmobile suit to keep me warm, with white face paint on and plastic fangs sticking out.

[msturgis524]

14. I was 15

I've always been a fan of snow. I sat up and watched it come down.

[Zookeeper]

15. My oldest son was 14 months old that Halloween...

and I had him dressed up in an adorable fluffy dalmation suit and planned to just show him off around the neighborhood. Until I saw the snow...we just visited our neighbors next door!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I remember my relatives telling me about it as I sat in

late October sunshine in Portland, Oregon. :evilgrin:

[lakeguy]

17. yup, drove my car into a snowbank and snapped both

belts. cheap fix but it isn't fun pushing your car in a blizzard!

[wellstone dem]

18. I remember

I had a bag of candy outside, and I handed it out to the kids as I shoveled snow.

[myrna minx]

19. I moved that day.

If it wasn't for my friend who had a large heavy van, I don't know what I would have done. Thankfully I only move 10 blocks away, but holy buckets, moving during a major blizzard is a bummer. I do have to admit though, that we were so focused on the move, that we didn't realize the extent of the snow until the next day. :wow:

[MnFats]

20. remember it vividly! My daughter was 6...

...and I took her trick-or-treating early evening....snowing hard; by the time we were done -- she wanted to keep going -- the snow was up to her waist and I had to carry her the last block.

I recall that the weather around the time of the World Series and a couple of days after was quite mild....then came that damn storm.

I remember driving in the ice/snow RUTS on freeways and especially the ramps....it was treacherous...

i had friends that for the first few days after the storm kept saying 'don't worry. this will melt.'
and I finally said something like 'you f*****g morons! In the fall, you get an inch of snow and you say 'this will melt' because there's a good chance it will actually melt. We've got THREE FEET of snow on the ground and it's not going anywhere til APRIL!!!"
they were pissed at first, but I was right.

[indigo32]

21. I was working as an aid in a nursing home at the time

My dad drove into Mpls the day after cuz he had a car that could make it close enough to my street, and get me to work to help them out, they were in obviously bad way, and my car wasn't moving.

[no name no slogan]

22. I was living in the UK at the time

The one year of my entire life I wasn't in MN for Halloween. I had graduated college in June and was living and working in London, UK. I got a call from my girlfriend at the time, who was a senior in college.

She was stuck in her apartment for 36 hours, and spent the time making mix tapes (anybody remember those?). She mailed me one the next day. I still have it around somewhere.

[GAspnes]

23. Yup, I remember it well

I started out with my 3 sons (10, 8 and 6) in full costume.

We retreated to the house after barely making it around the block.

[trotsky]

24. You young punks. I was in college.

Junior year. What I remember most about that storm was the next day, because the early snow that had fallen basically compacted into ice on all the roads. I drove with some friends to someone's off-campus apartment and just remember Snelling Avenue being like a torn-up ice rink.

There was another big snowstorm that year, like the day after Thanksgiving. I came back to campus Thanksgiving night before because I had work to do, and remember trudging over to the science building thru 2 feet of snow. What a workout.

[MN ChimpH8R]

25. I certainly do

It was the day after the Twins' World Series parade. The manager of the bookstore where I was working decided to open the store the next day. He gave up at 4:00 when it was STILL snowing. We caravanned to the liquor store and then all headed home. The streets of downtown Minneapolis looked like something out of a Stephen King apocalypse novel - snow and more snow, no cars or people and weirdly glowing yellow streetlights. Took me a long time to get back home (to Richfield) and my apartment building didn't get dug out until Saturday afternoon. Nothing to do but stay in, watch the snow and drink.

[csorman]

29. I had just gotten my license

and had to drive home from where I went to high school in St. Paul to where I lived in Marine on St. Croix - about 40 miles. We got out of school at 2 and I didn't get home until 7. Never been so scared, bored, frustrated, etc. in my life. They still had the Halloween party at the church though - the youth had spent a month putting the haunted house together in the fellowship hall so people felt bad and showed up anyway (some on snow shoes).

But there were still scores of kids trick-or-treating - my folks got tons of them, many wearing moon boots and giant parkas over their costumes. Nothing would hold them back.

I remember not having to go to school for 2 more days - I would just walk to my friends' homes and we made giant forts in the snow.

So will we get something like that again? Probably not this winter - though this upcoming week is supposed to be pretty wintery!

[mduffy31]

30. Oh do I remember

Here in Duluth that storm just parked right here and kept spinning and just kept dumping snow on us. That was the first time I have ever seen lightning along with snow. A bunch of us got the workers at a local gas station to sell us some beer when we were 16 years old, and we holed up at my neighbors house and was jumping off the top of trucks into huge snow banks, except on of my buddies jumped into a car instead of a snowbank! I am waiting right now for this storm that we are supposed to get right now, but we haven't seen anything yet.

Interesting point, that storm was part of the "Perfect Storm" that was made famous by the movie with Clooney.

[xraygrrl]

31. Yes! I hope I never see another blizzard on Halloween

oh yeah, I was out in the fields down by New Richland soil sampling. I stayed out in the field until I could barely see to drive my 4 wheeler. Called it a day, then had to stop every few miles to clear off the windshield of my truck, my wipers could not keep up with the heavy wet stuff. It took forever to get home. My husband took the girls out trick or treating in the 4 wheel drive, but only made it to a couple of houses (we live in the country). My youngest dd was a princess that year and she was UPSET that she had to wear boots with her costume. Ah, the joys of Minnesota.

[newyawker99]

33. Hi xraygrrl!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bucknaked]

32. He He! I sure do!

Lost my virginity that night. Was 15 at the time, and had no idea what I was doing, but it sure was a memorable night!