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Why trim the tree when mother nature will do it for free.
Talk about threading the needle.We couldn't even fall the tree in that perfect spot.As you can see the wind blew it sideways about 5-6 feet,and it snipped off the ridge board that stuck out on the top of the A-frame.We were out of power for 2 nights and a day.It was nice in the morning because I ate at Perkins and had some big breakfasts mmmm sausage. At night we resorted to hotdogs and beans.
On the only day I biked this week I went around to see what kind of damage the storm did.Down every street you would see just about every house had a pile of brush on the lawn.This was just around Shoreview and straight east.There wasn't much around White Bear and Bald Eagle. An F2 tornado tuched down in the Coon Rapids-Blaine area. And big power towers went down in the Andover area from 80 mph gusts.Over 100,000 were out of power.

Correction on my last post,it was cyclocross world champion Matt Kelly that went down at the start of the Chequamegon.
Tomarrow is the MNSCS awards party at Quality Bike Parts.Me,Sam,and Chris are going to Bike at Lebennon,fallowed by the party for pizza.It should be a fun time, so all you series competitors be there or be square!There will be shwag too this year.

Jay Richards has a blog now!Check it out http://birdman6blog.blogspot.com/