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Old 01-20-2013, 06:38 AM
 
Location: Twin Cities
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This just isn't going to work. Both commutes will be brutal in good weather and impossible in bad weather. There will be too many times in the winter when you will not be able to get from work back home, or from home to work. It can't be done. The person in Mankato needs to find a job in the cities.
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Old 01-20-2013, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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This just isn't going to work. Both commutes will be brutal in good weather and impossible in bad weather. There will be too many times in the winter when you will not be able to get from work back home, or from home to work. It can't be done. The person in Mankato needs to find a job in the cities.
chances are those state highways will be plowed before your Minneapolis neighborhood is
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Old 01-20-2013, 01:24 PM
 
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chances are those state highways will be plowed before your Minneapolis neighborhood is
Plowed, maybe but the blowing and drifting is the problem....winter travel in rural MN just isn't fun--even on a day like yesterday with no snow falling, the blowing on the rural roads can cause major problems.
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Old 01-20-2013, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Plowed, maybe but the blowing and drifting is the problem....winter travel in rural MN just isn't fun--even on a day like yesterday with no snow falling, the blowing on the rural roads can cause major problems.
Smaller rural roads can be an issue, but not main highways. Not usually. I commuted between Eden Prairie and Owatonna for eight months during the winter of 2002-2003, 59 miles each way, and it wasn't a bad commute at all.

It all depends on the specific roads. I wouldn't think 169 would be a bad commute.
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Old 01-20-2013, 04:47 PM
 
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Smaller rural roads can be an issue, but not main highways. Not usually. I commuted between Eden Prairie and Owatonna for eight months during the winter of 2002-2003, 59 miles each way, and it wasn't a bad commute at all.

It all depends on the specific roads. I wouldn't think 169 would be a bad commute.
Having driven in major rural roads for 15+ years in all kinds of different winter weather, I beg to differ.
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Old 01-20-2013, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Having driven in major rural roads for 15+ years in all kinds of different winter weather, I beg to differ.
you beg? having driven major rural roads for 40 years, I can count on 1 hand the days that I couldn't go where and when I wanted to.
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Old 01-20-2013, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Twin Cities
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chances are those state highways will be plowed before your Minneapolis neighborhood is
Plowing is prompt and timely in my Minneapolis neighborhood, but thank you very much for your concern. I know it came from your heart.

Drifting and blowing on 169 is a problem in the winter as golfgal says. Your smart aleck response assumes that it will have stopped snowing or let up enough to making plowing possible or effective whenever the OP is ready to make that trek, but Mother Nature doesn't always work that way.

My comment was based on the experience of a close family member who lived in Mankato and worked in the Twin Cities for a while. He had to stay with us a number of times during heavy snows because the road conditions on 169 were too bad to drive because it was snowing at the time. Other times, it would have been possible to drive but taken too long to make any sense.

The OP is going to be sadly disappointed when they're moving along 169 at 15 mph in icy whiteout conditions, or worse yet in some ditch because you told him the roads would always just be peachy.

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Old 01-20-2013, 07:06 PM
 
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Plowing is prompt and timely in my Minneapolis neighborhood, but thank you very much for your concern.

You see, my comment was based on the experience of a close family member who lived in Mankato and worked in the Twin Cities for a while. He had to stay with us a number of times during heavy snows because the road conditions on 169 were too bad to drive because it was snowing at the time. Other times, it would have been possible to drive but taken too long to make any sense.

Your smart aleck response assumes that it will have stopped snowing or let up enough to making plowing possible or effective, but Mother Nature doesn't always work that way.
169 has been closed a lot more often then Hennepin Ave.

Ghengis--going where you WANT to go and going where you NEED to go are two different things. If you are commuting to work, they are only going to give you so much leeway for missing work because roads are closed before they hand you the pink slip. There are some very bad stretches along 169 that get closed during pretty much any major or even semi-major snow storm. Ground blizzards are not uncommon either.
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Old 01-20-2013, 07:26 PM
 
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We got so focused on the winter weather that I almost forgot the seasonal closings on 169 due to flooding.

minnesota 169 closed - Google Search
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Old 01-20-2013, 07:34 PM
 
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We got so focused on the winter weather that I almost forgot the seasonal closings on 169 due to flooding.

minnesota 169 closed - Google Search
Good point. Either way, having a commute to Mankato and St. Paul is just not going to work. On the east coast where you can travel for 90 miles and never really get out of "the city" it's a different story--especially with the train systems, etc. It's just not the same thing here.
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