June 20th, 2007 Twin Cities Metro

I left work and took Hwy 100 N then headed West on 12 (well I tried to it was after 5pm, I did not understand the pay lane on 394, what’s up with that? Do I owe money? I figured their would be a booth somewhere or something.). I did not have any gear with me, just a Delorme Gazetteer(a road atlas), a cell phone, and a Casio EX-Z70 (tiny point and shoot for both photos and videos, it’s tiny, about half as think as a pack of cigarettes and 3oz or so? It’s not what I normally use but, I always keep it with me).

I made it to Montrose (I am not clear on this, I had to go further West to avoid hail), then here was my route as I best recall, Watertown, St. Bonifacious, Waconia (more hail), Chaska, Jordan, New Prague, Montgomary, and between New Prague, and Montgomary I must have had a few cells go by, I made it SE of Montgomary but, I did spend alot of time just S/SE of Montgomary. (Work in Progress, need to review map)

I try to keep low key by driving out on dirt roads a ways before pulling over, parking lots, away from main highways but, alot of people stopped to make sure I did’nt need help (that happened to be going down the dirt road, parking lot, etc), or to ask if I knew the sirens went off, and to ask what direction I think they needed to go in order to stay safe (‘you can look at my map but, I don’t actually live around here’, ‘the storm is moving ESE @ 30′, ‘oh and avoid the white precipitation, and ah, the white precipitation is often just behind the dark precipitation so try and avoid that too’). Don’t get me wrong I enjoy the company, and it’s nice to see that people care. The storms were moving at a manageable pace so I was able to avoid most of the hail (and it was falling everywhere).

(more later)

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