30th anniversary of 1991 Halloween Blizzard: Firsthand stories | FOX 9 KMSP

On Halloween Day 1991 and the days that followed, the Twin Cities metro area received more than two feet of snow, a record that still stands 30 years later, as the storm has become obsessed over, joked about, and part of the fabric of Minnesota history.
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[@danb6838]

I got stranded at a holloween party overnight (we Loaded up on beer at the liquor store when it started getting bad). BEST party I ever went to!!

[@richardjohnson2965]

I remember that well. I was working the highways as a state trooper...we had cars & trucks stranded everywhere....and it just kept on snowing & blowing.

[@wwtf7180]

Got stuck working a double shift due to no relief. Got home the next morning and shoveled and ran the snowblower til noon, took a nap and back at it again for a couple more hours and then back to work for a midnight shift. I remember when I closed my eyes for a nap I could still see the image of snow blowing around.

[@Shackleford8]

I can't believe I can remember this. I've asked all my friends and nobody knows what I'm talking about. I was 1 year 11 months old. I couldn't believe how tall the snow was. I remember jumping in the snow and disappearing.

[@billsherwin1705]

The Halloween blizzard debacle was part of a 50 year span of five Novembers with at least 20 inches of snow the Novembers were 1940 (Armistice Day Blizzard), 1947, 1983 and 1985 like Dr. Mark Seeley in 2003 saying in Mpls-St. Paul magazine that there are 50 year spans of wet and dry cycles in an article about how wacky the weather is.

[@briannave7326]

I’m from nc Iowa and I remember the 1991 blizzard here but it wasn’t as bad as what you had in Minnesota.

[@spencerforsberg4594]

I was in southern MN where it was more ice than snow, and on the farm we were without power for almost 3 days. There was between 4-6” of ice everywhere. I’ll not soon forget it.

[@nickhill8612]

Wow I can't imagine that much snow. Minn-snow-da.

[@MNWILD43]

I remember that day so well, my oldest boy was 6 months old at the time.

[@jeffreinartzmusic3729]

I was scheduled to be in a wedding in Minneapolis that night. I lived a hundred miles away at the time. It was only rain and ice where I lived, so I hit the road. Took me four hours to get to the Twin Cities, and I ended up walking the aisle alone because my partner couldn't make it! Parking was a drag because there were thirty inches of snow, but the wedding was a blast!

[@richeyrich]

I lived in south minneapolis and on a snow emergency route and got to work like usual. Got to work and there were only three of us. The CEO was there and thanked us for coming in. He even said we would get an extra day of vacation for our dedication to getting to work which was in downtown. We never got it the extra day off. All lies. 😑🙄

[@jeffklose3355]

We took are kids to the school in Mora for Halloween. We came out it was snowing like mad. I got up to go to work the next morning at Freddie's restaurant. We didn't open for a couple of days.

[@noneyabusiness1161]

Drove work truck friday and Saturday. stuck twice ( only ) lol Going across open roads the drifts over the windshield. The truck would be slowed down to almost a stop then fortunately an open spot to speed up again. It was like driving a 10' boat across a lake with large waves

[@patrickprafke4894]

I remember the snowfall totals being wildly inaccurate. We had almost 3 feet in southern Minnesota and the weather people said we had like 8 inches.

[@gregerickson1969]

LOL !!,,,,,,,,,from Tucson Arizona !!,,,,,(born and raised in Edina till 1977 ) !

[@livefromplanetearth]

still went trick or treating

[@heralampros5873]

I remember that Halloween 👻 🎃 , then My family ( me, my husband, and our 3 kids )moved to the U.P so that was the norm for us for all these years. Even in da the U.P aka Yooper Land doesn’t get as much snow as we used too. I have been really have been enjoying these reports about Minnesota history and ( un) told story .

[@Deeznutz002]

I was at Church. Drive the drive home was beautiful.

[@gigbymystupidity]

I was in a house in Finland MN. Up at the airbase. After three days.of not getting out of my house. I heard the snowplow go by. Pushed out of one door dug up on top of it and pushed my skis out before me so I wouldn't sink into the snow ,crawled on top on them and got out to the plowed road across my front yard. Cabinn fever!

[@douglashurd8652]

Got some nice pics of a mama moose and her baby moose by finland

[@cartier2312]

I was born February 22,1992

[@douglashurd8652]

After digging out my cousins on lynndale drove to St. Paul and help dig out over 100 cars . Dont know what was more fun ..( the drop out temp dive at ) the twins parade , or the storm right after , my uncle , a weatherman , and myself quite meteorlogically inclined at 28 and a storm chaser, i knew something was up LMAO !! The cops on 3 wheelers running intersections on lynndale was pretty crazy . Thank you , lovely ms. flood for the storm documentary 👍

[@SmashedgoesclicKk]

Oh yes! That’s time I was in kindergarten and I was only 5 years old that time and I never forgot that! I was full of surprised and I was okay do treat and trick also around the neighborhood

[@lawoflift1]

It was awesome to experience the storm of '91! Ironically, another storm is on the way! Let's go Brandon! #FJB

[@johnwalck3133]

#FDT

[@DJDizzyStorms]

remember it when I was aroud 6 years old going on 7 & I was getting over a fever & I saw that there was a whole mess of snow that day & my sister was getting redy to take me trick or treatung but because of the snow I had to do it indoors which was a good thing because it was much warmer.

[@NEMPLS]

I got so much candy that night on Halloween. Me and my buddy were only kids out so people just dumped the entire dish into our pillow cases.

[@tomgates316]

30 years ago already. Swear my back is still sore from that shoveling and hours of snowblowing. Wet feet to the ankles from the wet slush while taking kids around the block. Left car on the street, pooped, would move it later. Didn’t. Dug out two days later. Every hour weather over the radio - “we expect a couple more inches before this stops”. Local radars were blinded by amount of snow falling that they didn’t pick up the training nature of the system. It would continue building as it passes over.

[@billsherwin1705]

The Halloween blizzard was embarrassing because as recent as the third week of January 1982 because of two 17 inch snowstorms like Greg Ortell of the visitors bureau in 2000 saying that about the work stoppage of the hotel workers coinciding with the AA convention because it was in 1991 when the convention was booked.

[@ENigma-um8zw]

I trick or treated that night it was bonkers, I was a pirate with full snow pants and jacket and neon green facemask

[@karolynnolson3359]

I remember it real well cause i was living in Alabama at the time. And i was still wearing shorts and a tank top. And it was blizzarding where i was born and raised. I was EXTATIC that i was living in Alabama. Now i am living back in mn.

[@johnbob4545]

Ha. Where did you live in Bama? I've been on the coast for 30 years and thinking of going back to MI.

[@billsherwin1705]

Mt. Pinatubo was the culpert of the Halloween blizzard.

[@hotoiohoo4675]

My 1st trick or treat

[@lnxred7176]

Kristen Pffaf tava ai