snow doesn't change life in the warzone

[mellowtigger]

The importance of the weather forecast took precedence over my tradition of posting bad thoughtful news on Monday. Governor Walz even summoned the National Guard on Tuesday in preparation for difficulties expected this week. Metro cities arranged free parking lots for people to keep their vehicles during the historic snow, since Minneapolis already has permanent snow parking rules in effect and people will have a hard time complying with this rule during the predicted storm. I don't remember such unusual preparations ever happening here before.

Light snow began falling on Tuesday afternoon. That small snowfall wasn't enough to take precedence over traditional hostilities here in the warzone, though. After my car died, do you remember my first walk in my post-car life to the local medical clinic, just a few streets west of me? That clinic is at the corner near 2400 Broadway. That's also the area where these 12 gunshots (archive copy) rang out last night before 7pm. The news this morning says that one of the people shot there has died.

It's going to be a hot and bloody summer, now that the pandemic economic measures are ending and people are getting kicked out of their homes, even their homeless camps, and food/medicine is harder to find locally. Some people live in a completely different USA than the rest of the population. Amurrica!