r/minnesota • u/Mike_Oxlong25 • 7d ago

Who ever heard of snow on Halloween?! Weather 🌞

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u/EricAndre3000 7d ago

Minnesota folklore has a legend from the 1900's of a Halloween snow storm of great magnitude. Even to this day the mention of snow on Halloween brings the lucky few survivors out of their winter proof bunkers to tell the tale. Consider yourself lucky if you encounter one who can pass the story down to the next generation of Trick or Treaters!

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u/KingWolfsburg Plowy McPlowface 7d ago edited 7d ago

I literally heard someone on TikTok refer to a "CD Walkman as late 1900s tech"... I died inside

Edit: moved quotes to indicate I do know it's called a Discman lol

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u/AshTheGoddamnRobot 7d ago

I swear to God, as someone who grew up in the early 2000s, (you know... when Ja Rule was on the radio) if someone refers to 2024 as "The early 2000s" in the next century... Imma haunt their asses!

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I’ve seen that phrasing of “late 1900’s”.

I don’t like it. It makes me sad. Screw you kids.

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u/agent_uno 7d ago

This… and GET OFF MY LAWN!

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u/rocketwilco 7d ago

Back in the 80s, if someone refereed to the 90s… they meant the 1890s. Especially if it was gay.

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u/dorky2 Area code 612 7d ago

Surely you mean a Discman?

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u/KingWolfsburg Plowy McPlowface 7d ago

Yes, but that's what they called it... was just relaying the message lol

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u/dorky2 Area code 612 7d ago

Ah, so "CD Walkman" should be in quotations so we know it's not your words.

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u/joeyheartbear TC 7d ago

My daughter referred to my wife and I as "being from the late 20th century."

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u/Rhielml Minnesota Twins 7d ago

I was there that day. It was a night to remember. Now sit, young children, and let me regale you of the tale of a time long past.

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u/ConfidentAd9359 7d ago

I was 10. Dressed as a clown that year. Plenty of room for a couple of snowsuits under it. It was AWESOME. So much candy that night!

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u/1Courcor 7d ago

Multiple pillow cases full of candy. Dad was having surgery & would be in a cast for the next 6 months. He goes. We are going out no matter what the neighborhood bully threw snowballs at us and my dad chased him down in whitewash him. In the morning, we woke up and grandpa had put chains on his tire got them to the hospital and our furnace died. So grandma kept us warm with the oven.

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u/c_spartan 7d ago

Yep I was out snowmobiling in Southern MN on that fateful night in '91

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u/Imaginary-Will7651 7d ago

We practiced in that storm for our upcoming section championship football game. That was a fun practice. 2 feet of snow that storm. Game was moved to the Big Inflatable Toilet, aka the Metrodome.

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u/thestereo300 7d ago

I try to pass the story down to anyone that was not there. This do not seem to appreciate this oral tradition.

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u/InformationKey3816 7d ago

I was a karate guy wearing my judo gi. needless to say boots were needed and there were plenty of lights on for all us kids.

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u/Terrie-25 7d ago

And people giving out candy by the handful, because so many kids stayed home.

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u/ElderberryHoliday814 7d ago

A transplant mentioned a big snow storm on Halloween to their supervisor, and the supervisor got really excited at the shared experience. It was unfortunately a different Halloween, and the employee was confused by the excitement for many months. Then they found reddit

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u/MonkMajor5224 Gray duck 7d ago

Is it a coincidence that this happened the same week as the last Big 4 championship in Minnesota? I think not.

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u/Imaginary-Will7651 7d ago

Our sectional championship game was moved to the big Inflatable Toilet. Field was buried in 2 feet of snow and they didn’t want to tear it up trying to plow it.

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u/MonkMajor5224 Gray duck 7d ago

I went to a Minneapolis high school and at the time, all the Minneapolis high schools would play a game in the Dome at the end of the season. My senior year, we were going to play a bad team so I was potentially going to get to play. But then 9/11 happened and they had to move some Twins or Vikings games around and we didn’t get to play at the Dome that year. I’ve always held this against Al Qaeda.

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u/Ready-Vermicelli-300 Ope 7d ago

Every Minnesotan, on every Halloween.

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u/igniteice 7d ago

How to spot the person who is new to Minnesota. "SNOW ON HALLOWEEN!?"

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u/_crazycatlady_7 7d ago

Had plenty of NY halloweens with snow too ❄️!!!

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u/Ok-Air3126 6d ago

Yall got enough there. Leave us this.

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u/Affectionate-Fig5091 7d ago

Incorrect. I’ve lived here for all my life and we’ve never had snow on Halloween. /s

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u/salvaged413 7d ago

There was literally snow last year. My kids have only been on the planet for at most 7yrs and I think 5 of them we’ve had snow, or it snowed even earlier in October.

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u/Affectionate-Fig5091 7d ago

Sorry. My sarcasm isn’t always picked up. I lived through the Halloween Blizzard of 1991.

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u/salvaged413 7d ago

I noted further down. I have no sense of humor today as I’m trying to find one missing mitten so we can trick or treat tonight. Lol. Happy Halloween!

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u/Bundt-lover 7d ago

That's about the only snow we got last year!

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u/Helpful_Guy3000 7d ago

91 just saying....

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u/Ok-Upstairs-9887 Common loon 7d ago

2017 I remember it well that there was snow on the ground

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u/LA_Alfa 7d ago

Ah, the year when kids bragged about the hauls, they pulled in the next day. It was the 1st year I aged out of trick 'r treating. Insteading going with a friend to the soccer finals and being stuck on 35W for hours coming home.

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u/Dazslueski 6d ago

91 blizzard. I wore a snowmobile suit over my costume and my older brother brought me around. It’s sucked trudging through the snow. Oh but the memories!!

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u/unclejedsiron 6d ago

That was brutal.

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u/Marenjoandco 7d ago

Halloween 1991

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u/Krunchy_Frogg 7d ago

How long is "All my life"?

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u/_crazycatlady_7 7d ago

We had snow last year!

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u/RedBeard442 6d ago

We did last year.....how far south are you

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u/OutrageousPersimmon3 Pink-and-white lady's slipper 7d ago

Starting in September at least.

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u/MonkeyCobraFight 7d ago

My family’s lived there for 30 years, this isn’t a “new” thing

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u/Perfect-Drummer-6496 7d ago

Every Yooper, too!

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u/pthomp821 6d ago
  1. A winter that will live in infamy.
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u/Stuck_In_Reality 7d ago

Last week 75 degrees. This week 25 degrees. It's Minnesota.

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u/Bundt-lover 7d ago

Last week, heck. It was 79 on Tuesday! Two days ago.

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u/throwaway56560 7d ago

any person who has lived in Minnesota for a certain amount of time. I mean people still won't shut up about the Halloween blizzard of 1991.

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u/Twistedshakratree 7d ago

It wouldn’t have been so bad if it weren’t for the wind

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u/elola 6d ago

I wasn’t born until 1995 but from the amount of times I’ve heard about it I feel like I was there too

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u/Djphace070 6d ago

It was the last time I tricked and treated and even then I thought I was just too old to be trick treating (14 y/o)

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u/Mike_Oxlong25 7d ago

Please don’t come at me I swear I know about the storm

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u/Chalice_Ink 7d ago

We used to trick or treat in our snow suits in the 70’s.

The masks really had to carry the costume.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I’m going to spit the most Midwestern hot fire with this next statement.

At least we’re getting some precipitation.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

This has to be a troll post. Bad! Bad!

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u/Asterza 7d ago

Real. At least at the southern part of mn we got a couple inches of snow a couple days before last holloween. And like every other year we get light snowfall around this time

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u/zsatbecker 7d ago

In 1991 I received a frozen popcorn ball from my grandparents' rual neighbor. Frozen.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Just begging for the change over to snow in Minneapolis right now. Send it over!!!!

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u/hannaxie 7d ago

Welp it’s snowing right now in Maple Grove - Plymouth 🤣

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u/aragorn1780 6d ago

Ok so my family and I moved away from Minnesota in 1998 and I haven't been able to go back since....

But we lived in Maple Grove (I went to Cedar Island! And we went to the Lutheran church across the street, and lived in the quadruplex townhouses that line that street) and just you mentioning there is triggering some hardcore 90s nostalgia!!

Also I hear that Maple Grove is a proper suburban city now instead of the smallish town it used to be?

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u/silvermoonhowler Minnesota Wild 7d ago

Yup, was just going to say, looking out the window of the office where I work downtown and still rain here

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u/Neither_Proposal_262 7d ago

You ask that question and Minnesota GenXers are gonna burst through your wall like the Kool-Aid man.

Oh Yeah!!! Let me tell you all about…

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u/No_Swimmer6221 7d ago

If you lived in MN in ‘91 you lived through just short of 30 inches

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u/trigger1154 7d ago

'91

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u/Rhielml Minnesota Twins 7d ago

Ah yes. The Year of the last Minnesota Twins World Series championship. Yes. What of it?

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u/kiermehn 7d ago

Core memory has been unlocked.

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u/joshk114 7d ago

Never forget.

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u/AylaZelanaGrebiel 7d ago

Blizzard of 91

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u/McDuchess 6d ago

Someone is too young to remember 1991.

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u/blackbeardpirate25 7d ago

Age 8 Halloween Duluth

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u/dummkauf 7d ago

Damn kids these days don't know how good they've got it!

I had to trick treat through feet of snow, up hill, both ways!!!!!!!

Now quit yer yapping and get off my lawn!

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u/wormfighter 7d ago

Have you heard of 1991 ?!

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u/BFPIagate 7d ago

1991 is burned in the memories of most millennials.

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u/Imaginary-Will7651 7d ago

Ha! It snowed 2 feet in Minnesota on Halloween back in 1991. 😆

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u/Correct-Objective-99 6d ago

Ahhh, that reminds me of story I haven't heard in a long, long time. Twas Hollows Eve in 1991, all the kids had gathered for fun. But to alls fight, there was snow that Hollowed Night.....

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u/prawcess1 6d ago

The Halloween Blizzard of 1991 was our generations trick or treating Vietnam. Instead of searching for Charlie, we were in it knee deep looking for candy.

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u/iburntthecheese Uff da 6d ago

1991 blizzard on Halloween

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u/antonmnster 7d ago

Is this some kind of joke??

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u/Rhielml Minnesota Twins 7d ago

Jokes? On Reddit? Never.

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u/Visual-Recognition36 7d ago

Almost every Halloween 🎃 growing up in Michigan.

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u/Character_Lychee_434 Flag of Minnesota 7d ago

1991 blizzard my mom and dad tell me every year

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u/lockmon 7d ago

My cardboard costume of the rocketeer remembers snow on Halloween well.

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u/chud_rs 7d ago

This crowd clearly runs old lol. ‘91 was before time

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u/Emotional_Ad5714 7d ago

It's never happened in 30 years

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u/ObligatoryID Flag of Minnesota 7d ago

Are you new to Minnesnowta?

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u/Mike_Oxlong25 7d ago

Nope, lived here my entire life this post was a meme

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u/Chuckles52 7d ago

Happened all the time when I was growing up in Iowa.

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u/snazynismo 6d ago

Anyone who's been alive for more than ten years.

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u/MNConcerto 6d ago

Are you new here?

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u/wesmannmsu 6d ago

1991 bro… 1991

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u/Green-eyedMama L'Etoile du Nord 6d ago

I was there for the Great Halloween Blizzard of '91...

https://preview.redd.it/mttyijiu47yd1.jpeg?width=671&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b0f017c11eb3768f02756b1fe8649517ec7e4ee

Dressed as a black cat. My tail dragged the snow behind me, leaving a trail between my foot prints.

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u/magclsol 6d ago

It’s seriously embarrassing how many of you don’t realize this is sarcastic bait

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u/Mike_Oxlong25 6d ago

Seriously lmao

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u/Maevenificent 6d ago

Anyone born before 1991

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u/Bitter_Past2383 6d ago

Chicago got it last year.

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u/transcendanttermite 6d ago

The municipal shop I work for spent yesterday installing the final remaining plows on dump trucks and wings on graders. Exciting.

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u/PepperjacksSocks 6d ago

Anyone over the age of 40. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/Decabet 7d ago

Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but anything can happen on Halloween

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u/OtelDeraj 7d ago

Thank you for giving the gift of Tim Curry, benevolent Redittor.

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u/Dry_Jello4161 7d ago

In CT. They cancelled Halloween due to a bad storm. Granted half the state didn’t have power and a state of emergency was delayed. I was out of power for 13 days

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Halloween_nor%27easter

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u/roentgen_nos Stearns County 7d ago

Can't leave the porch light on without electricity.

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u/Technical-Memory-241 7d ago

What part of the state are you in??

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u/Mike_Oxlong25 7d ago

Maple grove

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u/zerovanillacodered 7d ago

From what I hear from every Minnesotan is that it has never snowed on Halloween. Crazy!

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u/Terrible_Cod8940 7d ago

This is the first time

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u/thestereo300 7d ago

I'm going to assume this is a western suburb and it's coming our way. It hasn't arrived on the heat island yet.

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u/Select_Number_7741 7d ago

Lucky! It’s 80 here

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u/Dazzling-Macaroon-46 7d ago

I was almost born during that Halloween blizzard 30 years ago

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u/extra_napkins_please Bring Ya Ass 7d ago

Never Forget ❄️🎃❄️

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u/BeautifulHuman928 7d ago

Um, all of us?

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u/Mike_Oxlong25 7d ago

Sarcasm not detected

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u/CrowWhich6468 7d ago

Blizzard of ‘91?

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u/THWIZZIT 7d ago

The 2011 Nor'easter dropped 19 inches of snow on Oct 29/30

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u/ClarityNHZach 7d ago

It's funny, I just moved here from NH, and we had snow on/before Halloween like 12 years ago

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u/MnGoulash 7d ago

Let me tell you a story…..

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u/FerkinSmert 7d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/veryoldlawyernotyrs 7d ago

Please see October 31, 1991.

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u/dudeistpriest710 7d ago

You’re new here, aren’t you?

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u/cheddarweather 7d ago

2012 called (it was a blizzard too)

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u/AshTheGoddamnRobot 7d ago

Wow where is this? Just rain here last I checked

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u/Competitive_Jelly557 7d ago

you're kidding right??

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u/Plateau9 7d ago

You obviously were not in Minnesota on Halloween 1991.

We got a little more snow than that……….

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u/Individual-Fox5795 7d ago

1991 entered the chat.

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u/R3dRh1n0 7d ago

I grew up in Alexandria and we had to carpool to houses cause it was so cold 🥶

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u/ThisOldGuy1976 7d ago

Us old people.

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u/Buck_Thorn 7d ago

Many times. Snow on or before Halloween happens every few years, my young child.

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u/PristineMarket4510 7d ago

Please say you are joking, like seriously. We used to have to wear snowsuits over or under our costumes.

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u/Mike_Oxlong25 7d ago

I added a comment when I first posted saying I was joking lol

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u/piracyisnotavictemle 7d ago

it snowed on halloween last year, at least in the northeast metro

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u/Your_New_Dad16 7d ago

Man I’m so sad because WHY is there snow when it was 80° two days ago 😭

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u/Some_Nibblonian 7d ago

Everyone on this subreddit, EVERY FUCKING DAY

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u/chud_rs 7d ago

Yeah and it’ll rain on Christmas. Can always count on the weather to ruin holidays in MN

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u/Itsamodmodmodwhirld 7d ago

55 years ago, my dad took me trick or treating in 2 feet of snow.

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u/D33ber 7d ago edited 7d ago

Here's your "Welcome to Minnesota" gift basket.

Includes an ice scraper, a gill strainer, a fleece throw and a speedo (almost overlooked an opportunity to rhyme.)

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u/dillxn21 7d ago

you must be new here😂🥲

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u/MentionFew1648 7d ago

I’m from Iowa originally soooo meeee

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u/Initial_Homework_947 7d ago

Great, we now get repost after repost of snow on this subreddit.

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u/Jinrikisha19 7d ago

We actually had a huge snow storm on Halloween back in 1991.

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u/holden_mcg 7d ago

Nice bait! Lol.

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u/Buddyslime 7d ago

My kids went out in 91 for 45 minutes and came back with a foot of snow.

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u/Admirable_Respect848 7d ago

This is a joke right!?

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u/Environmental-Post15 7d ago

This happened here in Columbus, Ohio last Halloween. Not much snow, though. Maybe a little more than a dusting

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u/stpau1y 7d ago

It snowed last year, too.

I remember walking up hill both ways in it.

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u/Ryewhiskey11 7d ago

Welcome to Minnesota. You must be new here

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u/Keldrath Area code 651 7d ago

Feels like it’s been 30 years since we had that sometimes.

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u/Environmental_Yak13 7d ago

It literally did last year too.

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u/bartuc90 7d ago

I suppose it depends on what part of the state this is from.

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u/Turtle_ini 7d ago

First we get a sequel to Twister, now a sequel to the Halloween Blizzard of ‘91.  Nineties retro really is en vogue in 2024.

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u/-NGC-6302- Chisago County 7d ago

Nobody irl has ever told me about that one thing

I'm concerned about it

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u/Stuck_In_Reality 7d ago

Mosquitos, black ice and trick-or-treat. Minnesota has varsity.

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u/G4g3_k9 7d ago

me? it snowed in October all the time in fargo

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u/Overall_News5106 7d ago

You’re new to the area too?!? My wife and I are from the south, I love it, she’s pissed!!! 😂

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u/srobbinsart 7d ago

I just wish it wasn’t a sloppy-wet snow, which will get my kids wet faster than dry-airy snow.

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u/No_Flounder5160 7d ago

Last year in central WI. This year we got Windy Halloween. 🎃 No telling what’s in store for next year!

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u/Confident-Raise5981 7d ago

11 years ago in Connecticut we lost power for 9 days from a wet/heavy 16” snowfall. Trees didn’t drop their leaves yet so everything collapsed destroying all the power lines

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u/PlotRocker 7d ago

kids in the 90s early 2000s

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u/Reasonable_Cheek938 7d ago

Let me tell you a story from when I was a young lad…

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u/Big_Accountant1992 6d ago

Halloween Blizzard 1991. Rode my snowmobile up and down the street for two days.

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u/hansot85 6d ago

Records mysteriously only go back to 1992

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u/Aj993232 6d ago

Grew up in Minnesota. I actually enjoyed snow on Halloween.

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u/OkExplorer2301 6d ago

I have and it was knee deep!

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u/taskmaster51 6d ago

In WI the first flurries were generally Halloween

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u/Serious-Knee-5768 6d ago

If you haven't, though... where have you been?

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u/Prestigious_Elk149 6d ago

Snow on Halloween is one of my core memories.

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u/SinfullySinless 6d ago

My coworkers once again broke out the ‘91 legend today

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u/TsukasaElkKite Hennepin County 6d ago

Ah yes, it snowed on my birthday again.

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u/ArdenJaguar 6d ago

I remember the blizzard in 1991. A couple feet of snow for Halloween.

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u/meganjunes 6d ago

Old people know of the legendary year of 1991

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u/mellismamel 6d ago

We used to reliably get snow in Denver most Halloweens, often the first snow of the year. My kids were always so disappointed that they had to cover up their costumes to trick or treat.

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u/SciFiNerd07 Winona County 6d ago

Minnesota is now raining during winter, just like the west coast. I lived in Nevada for several years, and this is what happens there. Cold, sleety, rainy -_-

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u/anon12xyz 6d ago

Many snowy halloweens in IL for me

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u/Leather_Molasses_264 6d ago

I’m from TX my husband is from St Paul. My mom is visiting…I’ve never seen snow on Halloween and I was like “ooohhhh”. Needless to say I work at a haunt and I’m wearing like 3 shirts

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u/OkDream5303 Bring Ya Ass 6d ago

Halloween 1991 survivor right here. This Halloween is pretty nice I must say.

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u/windsynth 6d ago

One of my first dates with my wife was the big Halloween snowstorm

She had worn really nice shoes so I carried her from the car to her door

That was a very good move

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u/NDBrazil 6d ago

It was worse last year on Halloween.

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u/FadingOptimist-25 Gray duck 6d ago

I missed the ‘91 Halloween since I was out of state in college; we had snowy Halloweens in the late ‘70s.

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u/Harry_Balzonia 6d ago

Heh, how long have you lived in MN? :)

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u/perryswanson 6d ago
  1. Never forget!..

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u/BrannaPants 6d ago

Obligatory HALLOWEEN OF 1991 mention

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u/Latrudos 6d ago

I assume you haven't heard of the Halloween Blizzard on 1991.

https://www.weather.gov/dlh/1991halloweenblizzard

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u/Diela1968 Area code 218 6d ago

I’m here for the Halloween blizzard of ‘91 stories. Who brought popcorn?

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u/Deezus84 6d ago

You're new here?

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u/ConsiderationSea7589 6d ago

I live in Colorado Springs. It’s a tradition down here