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Tag: Flooding

This or That

Here’s why you shouldn’t drive through floodwaters

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2019, 7:01 AM Mar 29, 2019
28

People cannot possibly still be oblivious to the carnage from driving distracted, yet people still drive while texting. For decades, authorities have warned drivers not to try to go through standing water, and people keep driving through standing water and become the poster children for additional warnings not to do it.
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Weather

The powerful lure of a road with standing water

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 21, 2018, 2:41 PM Jun 21, 2018
5

The plan to get somewhere is a powerful force. It can make you do things you know you shouldn’t do. But we do them anyway. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you don’t. Read more →

This or That

Reporters standing in water

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 14, 2016, 8:57 AM Jul 14, 2016
33

Flooding is causing nightmares for the people of Pine and Kanabec counties in Minnesota.

The only good news is we’ve got new additions to our growing scrapbook of TV reporters who think they have to stand in water to tell you about it.
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Weather

And now a Minnesota moment of nature

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2015, 9:20 AM Jul 6, 2015
0

Six inches of rainfall in six hours raises this question about life in Minnesota: Would you rather have a foot of snow, freezing temps and a dry basement? Or summertime temperatures, rain, and soggy carpet? Again. Read more →

Politics

Remembering Dennis Walaker

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 2, 2014, 8:27 PM Dec 2, 2014
3

Walaker didn’t seem to be a phony, and he made North Dakota make a lot of sense to an out-of-towner. Read more →

Weather

1,000 Words: The sandbaggers

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 2, 2014, 9:33 AM Dec 2, 2014
5

People in southern California are sandbagging in anticipation of heavy rain.
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Five by 8 · Weather

5 x 8: Why Minneapolis is #1

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 8, 2013, 6:43 AM Jul 8, 2013
4

We welcome the coming riff-raff; our secret is out. The people who care enough not to disappear after covering a story. The next philanthropists? One common hope in Carlton and St. Louis counties, and what will the driverless car do to our cities? Read more →

Weather

What river ‘stages’ look like in a flood

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 3, 2013, 11:43 AM Apr 3, 2013
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It’s hard to get a picture of what any of the river flood terms mean. So here’s a picture.

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