What A Day To Be Driving!

This is what it looked like as we were leaving the Shriner's Hospital.

Lauren likes the snow. I don't mind it. But driving in it today was more than challenging. It was a bit white-knuckle at times, very slow going and generally a big adventure.

Blowing snow and 40-50 mph winds created white-out conditions – even in town. The snow was falling so fast, the plows could not keep up, especially in the in-town areas. More than 650 traffic accidents were reported statewide and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune wrote: "By evening, motorists were mired in gridlock, with evening commutes taking twice, sometimes three times longer than usual." We can certainly attest to that. On the way home from our dinner at Pizza Luce in the Uptown district with my friend Melissa German, we were traveling at five miles an hour most of the time.

We stopped to put air in the van's tires. This is all you could see of me out the window.

The purple lines are roads that were not recommended for travel.

The temperature might have said four degrees, but the wind chill was -25.

This is pretty much what our drive looked like all day.