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Looking like an active week here for us in the upper Midwest. I will be wrapping up maintenance on the Jeep today from home before heading out for a couple of solid 3 days of chasing and Live Streaming.
Waite Park, MN high winds short out powerlines – 2/29/2016
High winds are moving through central Minnesota this morning with gusts up to 36 miles per hour. Just before sunrise, the high winds and debris caused a power line to sort out along county road 75 or Division. The road was shut down for about an hour until Xcel Energy could shut the power off and dispatch crews to repair the line.
Clip 1 Fire crews arrive on the scene and almost get in a wreck as a car cuts off the fire truck. Pans up to the power line shorting out.
Clip 2 – 4 Tight and medium shots of the power line shorting out. Some of the arcs are several feet long and curve out away from the power line.
Clip 5 Tight shot of the Waite Park Fire truck.
Clip 6 Wide shot of huge power flashes as the line shorts out.
Clip 7 Fire crews shut down county road 75 for about an hour. Truck blocking the roadway.
Clip 8 Another shot of the lines arcing.
Clip 9 Road sign bouncing in the wind.
Clip 10 As daylight starts, you can see the clouds move behind the power line shorting out and throwing huge arcs of electricity.
Clip 11 Fire crews watching the scene
Clip 12 Wide shot outside the restaurant with the power lines shorting out and the power flickering and the signs coming on for a instant and turning back off.
Clip 13 Fire crew on the scene walking and talking on the phone.
Clip 14 Fire crews blocking highway 75
Clip 15 After sunrise, flag blowing in the high wind.
Clip 16 – 17 Time and temp sign showing it was only 16F out with winds gusting over 35 mph to create a sub zero wind chills .
Avon, MN Crew’s battle Multi Family housing fire in the snow and cold – 2/11/2016
In Avon, MN which is just outside of the Saint Cloud, MN metro area, a house was consumed by fire and is a total loss. The fire is suspected as starting in the garage and then moved to consume the entire structure. No injuries are reported and reports at the scene are that everyone did get out of the home safely.
The fire was a multiple alarm fire with mutual aid from the Albany, MN and Saint Joseph, MN fire departments.
Update Per officials at the scene, the house is a triplex apartment or multi family complex.
Clip 1 Wide shot of the fire scene with police tape blocking the road.
Clip 2 Fire crews consumed by smoke as they try to battle the fire in the front of the home.
Clip 3 Tight locator shot of Avon Fire truck.
Clip 4 Fire escaping from the roof of the house with heavy smoke as the snow is falling.
Clip 5 Crews spraying down the side of the house (upwind side).
Clip 6 Crews in the snow spraying down the side of the garage as flames and heavy smoke come out of the roof.
Clip 7 Locator shot of one of the Avon, MN Police Squads on the scene with an Avon, MN fire truck in the back ground.
Clip 8 Crews working on the side of the house in the snow and fast push in as the smoke clears of the fire coming out of the roof.
Clip 9 Wider shot of fire coming out of the roof and upper wall of the house.
Clip 10 Tight shot of fire coming out of the upstairs side wall as snow is falling.
Clip 11 Water being poured into the wall vent.
Clip 12 Tight shot of fire fighters spraying water.
Clip 13 Fire crews and truck.
Clip 14 Fire crews trying to battle the fire in the garage.
Clip 15 Wide shot of the scene from the upwind side.
Clip 16 Fire crews and truck with smoke.
Clip 17 Fire crews in the back yard spraying water on the house.
Clip 18 Fire crews staging across the street from the fire as they rotate out about every 10 minutes.
Clip 19 Snow and heavy smoke in the back ground as crews setup in the foreground.
Clip 20 Heavy thick smoke fills the air.
Clip 21 Tight shot of Saint Joseph Fire & Rescue truck.
Clip 22 Police putting up tape to block off the area.
Clip 23 Avon Fire Truck
Clip 24 Fire crews carrying a ladder.
Clip 25 Fire fighter cutting a hole in the side of the hose to battle the fire.
Clip 26 Medium shot of crews in the back yard fighting the fire.
Clip 27 Wide shot of crews in the back yard fighting the fire.
The blizzard warning continues for southern Minnesota as the high winds are blowing around the snow. Combined with the glare ice on the road surface, travel is not advised.
Clip 1 Snow plow driving past on I35
Clip 2 – 3 MN State Troopers help a motorist out that was stuck at the top of a exit ramp near Geneva, MN
Clip 3 – 7 Semi Truck blocking the Entrance to Interstate 35 near Geneva MN with Troopers on the scene as crews work to clear the accident.
Clip 8 – 9 Semi truck flipped over in the ditch on Interstate 35
Clip 10 Semi truck in the center ditch on Interstate 35
Clip 11 Semi truck facing the wrong way on Interstate 35 in the center ditch
Saint Paul Winter Carnival, Warm Ice Carving In Rice Park
It was a very warm start for the Saint Paul Winter Carnival as the Ice Carving competition started this evening in Rice Park.
While the temps near 40 during the overnight were great for people coming out to watch the competitors setting up and carving the giant ice blocks, the temps were not good for the ice.
Several of the ice carvings that were already completed around the park had already began to melt.
Clip 1 Melted Winter Carnival Ice Carving
Clip 2 Sign saying coolet celebration on earth
Clip 3 Two men walking past the camera with no coats on
Clip 4 One of the winter carnival trucks
Clip 5 Winter Carnival Royalty walking into the Saint Paul Hotel across the street from Rice Park.
Clip 6 – 7 People checking out the ice carving in Rice Park.
Clip 8 Someone working on blocks of ice.
Clip 9 Ice Sculpture
Clip 10 People walking
Clip 11 Ice sculpture melting
Clip 12 People checking out the sculptures and taking photos.
Clip 13 People walking a dog in the park
Clip 14 Close up of ice sculpture melting
Clip 15 Water dripping off an ice sculpture
Clip 16 A ice sculpture of a camel
Clip 17 – 29 Crews working on their ice sculptures. Cutting and moving the huge blocks of ice
Stearns County, MN I-94 Snow & Wrecks – 1/25/2016The next round of winter weather is moving into Minnesota and impacting the Interstate 94 corridor in Stearns County. Footage of snow plows, car in the snow, cars off in the ditch and being pulled out of the ditch. Clip 1 Car in the ditch on Interstate 94 Clip 2 POV Driving shot of a car being pulled out of the ditch with State Troopers on the scene. Clip 3 Looking down on traffic on Interstate 94 from Saint Johns exit. Clip 4 White Car in the ditch along Interstate 94 Clip 5 Wide shot of the tow truck and car in the ditch on Interstate 94 Clip 6 White car in the ditch with tow truck driver talking to them. Clip 7 – 8 White car being pulled out of the ditch. Clip 9 Snow plowing with a sign pointing towards the left to Saint Cloud, MN on I94. Clip 10 Traffic on Interstate 94 in the snow. Clip 11 POV Driving in heavy snow with traffic. Clip 12 POV Passing snow plow on right. Clip 13 POV Driving in heavy snow with traffic. Clip 14 POV Driving in heavy snow with traffic. Clip 15-21 POV Following a snow plow.
Saint Cloud, MN Extreme Cold Sub Zero Temps – 1/9/2016
As the cold weather moves in from Canada, the polar temps make their first stop on their way to the Twin Cities in the city of Saint Cloud, MN. Just after noon on Saturday, temps in the city of Saint Cloud were being reported at -2F with a Wind Chill of -21F.
Just twelve hour’s later, the temp has dropped to -12F
Clip 1 Temp at 12:17 PM -2F
Clip 2 Blowing snow over a roadway
Clip 3 As the night grew later, the temps dropped to -8F by 9:00 PM
Clip 4 Just after midnight, the temp around Saint Cloud was now being reported at -12F at 12:11 AM
Clip 5 Tight shot of -12F sign.
Clip 6 Another Time and temp sign at 12:20 AM showing the temp was -12F
Clip 7 Tight shot of the -12F
Clip 8 Daylight shot in the afternoon of a large flag blowing in the wind.
Clip 9 – 16 Blowing snow over a road near the Saint Cloud, MN Airport and traffic. Low and high shots of the blowing snow.
Winter weather moved back into central Minnesota just to the north west of the Twin Cities metro area before the big chill this weekend.
Shot in the area around Big Lake and Monticello MN which are right next to each other but on opposite sides of the Mississippi River.
Clip 1 Snow plow on Highway 10 just north of Big Lake.
Clip 2 Car almost going into the ditch on Interstate 94 near Monticello
Clip 3 Snow plow on Highway 10 near Big Lake.
Clip 4 – 5 Car in the ditch on Highway 10 near Big Lake.
Clip 6 EMS Responding to a call in the snow on Highway 10 near Big Lake.
Clip 7 Pov of EMS in the snow on Highway 10
Clip 8 Snow falling with trees in the background near Monticello.
Clip 9-10 Traffic in Monticello
Clip 11 Snow POV shot on Highway 10.
Clip 12 POV Shot on Highway 10 of snow plows coming towards the camera.
Clip 13 POV Driving shot in the snow on Highway Ten near Becker, MN.
Clip 14 POV Driving show as a semi truck passes on the left but a car is stopping to turn left in front with a near miss of almost hitting the vehicle trying to turn left.
