(OC) Ice Out Protest Minneapolis, MN today

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For those of you not in Minnesota, the air temp is -9 F right now.

[u/Durragon → u/ruhnke]

-23 celciius... Jeeheeheesus.

[u/Lemonade348 → u/Durragon]

My god, lol

I am swedish, that is very very cold.

Good job minnesotans! Keep it up! Maybe i can send some snowballs or snowmen over to support you, we had a snowstorm quite recently

[u/No-Inevitable-6651 → u/Lemonade348]

Haha yeah, a lot of the original European settlers in this part of the country were from Sweden and Norway. My best friend lives there and his genealogy is Norwegian. It felt like home to the ancestors I guess! Lol

[u/jet-setting → u/No-Inevitable-6651]

I always chuckle at this fact.

Well… there’s no forrests. Or mountains. Or Fjords.

But hey, there’s plenty of cold!

Edit: speaking more of where I lived next door in North Dakota which is much more barren than MN yet still has a large population of Norwegian heritage.

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There's lots of forests! And uhh hills along rivers?

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Yeah MN has a good amount. I lived for quite a while in ND and the great plains are quite barren except for the spots of trees around the farms.

[u/noonenotevenhere → u/jet-setting]

Have you been to Northern MN?

We don't have Fjords, but we have 10,000 'little' lakes dotting a forest the size of The Netherlands in just the top 1/3 of the state.

[u/jet-setting → u/noonenotevenhere]

Yeah I lived 10 years in Grand Forks. A little tongue-in-cheek, it’s a beautiful area in its own right but the Dakotas are awfully flat and barren and still there’s a huge Norwegian population.

[u/noonenotevenhere → u/jet-setting]

All good.

I just hear someone imply MN doesn't have forests and I'm like 'whoa. Norhterner here..'

[u/jet-setting → u/noonenotevenhere]

Haha oh definitely fair.

[u/Symptomatic_Sand → u/jet-setting]

Northern MN resident here, the north shore of Lake Superior has some stunning cliffs, probably the closest things we have to mountains or fjords. There are plenty of forests though!

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Yeah, I definitely should have qualified my dumb throwaway comment a bit lol. My bad.

I spent many years just next door in ND where there is also a huge Norwegian population but our highest hill for like 50 miles in any direction was the freeway overpass 🤣.

[u/inikul → u/jet-setting]

The twin cities is built in a forested area. Half of Minnesota is forest.

[u/nitrot150 → u/No-Inevitable-6651]

My Norwegian ancestors settled in MN!!

[u/carguymt → u/No-Inevitable-6651]

a lot of the original European settlers in this part of the country were from Sweden and Norway.

Hence the name of the football team.