Ice, ice baby!

So, Minnesota knows ice like Bo used to know everything. Much of the populace utilizes H2O (s) for a number of items:

• Ice skating (yawn)
• Hockey (not for the pros this year!)
  
• Ice boating (very fast, looks kindof fun)
• Snowmobiling (somewhat fast, looks ok)
  
• Ice fishing (huh!?)

But this is not my point. There is another issue with ice. It is termed the 'ice dam.' To put it in basic terms, the repeated melting and freezing of the snow on your roof will lead to a 'dam' of ice at the edge of your roof. And then the melting water can't get over the dam, and lacking nowhere else to go, follows gravity--into your house, rotting dryeall and peeling paint.

But again, this is not not my point. The point is that Minnesota wins a special prize for ice. Not only will we fall on it (skating, hockey), fall through it (sometimes in our vehicles, often when retrieving the ice houses for fishing), but we can fall off of our roofs trying to deal with it. Then we will wreck our cars on the ice on the streets when we are driving to the hospital.

Heh. My amazement at this must prove I am not a native Minnesotan. More evidence of this is the story about this illegial alien found living in a local high school. The local response has been to give him a lawyer, take him into a local family's home, and give him a job. My response? No visa, no green card, no staying! And as for the principal of the high school, he should be canned. Could any of the parents feel safe now? Just another reason my (potential) children will never, ever go to public schools.